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29: 526: 703: 697: 232:, there was a public mourning after her death in Babylonia lasting for six days. Cassandane reportedly stated that it was more bitter to leave Cyrus's side than to die. The six days of mourning are identified as 21–26 March 538 BC. According to a suggestion by M. Boyce, Cassandane's tomb is located at 221:
Her daughter Atossa later played an important role in the Achaemenid royal family, as she married Darius the Great and bore him the next Achaemenid king,
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When Cassandane died, all the nations of Cyrus' Persian empire observed "a great mourning". This is reported by Herodotus. According to the
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Suleiman Prison (Pasargad) 1906 image taken from the book Persia past and present by AV Williams Jackson (1906)
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Index


Pasargad Archaeological Site
Queen consort
Achaemenid Empire
Coronation
Atossa
Pasargad
Cyrus the Great
Issue
Cambyses II
Bardiya
Artystone
Atossa
House
Achaemenid
Pharnaspes
Achaemenian
queen
Cyrus the Great
Cambyses II
Atossa
Xerxes I
Pharnaspes
Cambyses II
Bardiya
Atossa
Darius the Great
Xerxes I
Nabonidus Chronicle
Pasargadae

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