Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Chronology

Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.

Alternative assertion

343 BCE–332 BCE

Precision: range

high

Approximate activity or relevance range, not an assertion that the entity was unchanged throughout.

  • supports · defines political formation
    Persian Period — David Klotz (2015)

    Supports the formation and its cautions.


    Locator: Political history and chronology discussion

Research description

Second, short period of Achaemenid imperial rule before Alexander's conquest. The record does not imply permanently fixed borders or uniform administration throughout its date range.

Properties and assignments

A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.

Dynasty 31 / Second Persian Period
What does this label mean?

Egyptological label for renewed Achaemenid rule from 343 to 332 BCE.

Full property definition

Why does this record have this property?

The political formation falls within this modern period or dynasty classification for the stated interval. The assignment is a modern classification and does not create an ancient event or permanent territorial identity.

highStatus: supported assignment

Evidence and sources

  • supports · defines political formation
    Persian Period — David Klotz (2015)

    Supports the formation and its cautions.


    Locator: Political history and chronology discussion

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