The Definitive Guide to Sphynx
v.) in Elamite sources (Herzfeld, pp. 169–71, 178–seventy nine, 186). From that instant the name obtained the connotation of an ethnic area, the land of the Persians, as well as the Persians before long thereafter Started the vast Achaemenid empire. A hardly ever-ending confusion thus established in between a slim, constrained, geographical use