Teïspes (from

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; in peo, 𐎨𐎡𐏁𐎱𐎡𐏁 ''Cišpiš''; Akkadian: 𒅆𒅖𒉿𒅖 ''Šîšpîš'',Kent (1384 AP), page 394

Elamite Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was used in what is now southwestern Iran from 2600 BC to 330 BC. Elamite works disappear from the archeological record ...

: Zi-iš-pi-iš) ruled

Anshan Anshan () is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning's third most populous city with a population ...

in 675–640 BC. He was the son of

Achaemenes Achaemenes ( peo, 𐏃𐎧𐎠𐎶𐎴𐎡𐏁 ; grc, Ἀχαιμένης ; la, Achaemenes) was the apical ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia. Other than his role as an apical ancestor, nothing is known of his life or a ...

Persis Persis ( grc-gre, , ''Persís''), better known in English as Persia ( Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, ''Parsa''; fa, پارس, ''Pârs''), or Persia proper, is the Fars region, located to the southwest of modern-day Iran, now a province. T ...

and an ancestor of Cyrus the Great. There is evidence that

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and Ariaramnes were both his sons. Cyrus I is the grandfather of Cyrus the Great, whereas Ariaramnes is the great-grandfather of Darius the Great. According to 7th-century BC documents, Teispes captured the Elamite city of Anshan, speculated to have occurred after the Persians were freed from Median supremacy, and expanded his small kingdom. His kingdom was, however, a vassal state of the

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(911–605 BC). He was succeeded by his second son, Cyrus I.

Name

The Old Persian version of the name is ''Čišpiš''; Walther Hinz and Heidemarie Koch interpret it as ''*Čaišpiš'', but this appears to be incorrect. Rüdiger Schmitt considers the name "probably Iranian", whereas Jan Tavernier says it could also be Elamite. In either case, the etymology is unknown. It is probably not related to either the name of the

Hurrian The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; transliteration: ''Ḫu-ur-ri''; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurrian language and lived in Anatolia, Syria and Northern ...

storm god

Tešup Teshub (also written Teshup, Teššup, or Tešup; cuneiform ; hieroglyphic Luwian , read as ''Tarhunzas'';Annick Payne (2014), ''Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts'', 3rd revised edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. ...

or to the name of the

Cimmerian The Cimmerians (Akkadian: , romanized: ; Hebrew: , romanized: ; Ancient Greek: , romanized: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people originating in the Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into Wes ...

king

Teušpa Teushpa (Akkadian: , and ) was an early 7th-century BC king of the Cimmerians. Name and are Akkadian forms of a name which originates from a Cimmerian dialect of the Old Iranian Scythian language. The linguist János Harmatta reconstructed t ...

.Schmitt, 1992 Its connection with the (Elamite) byname 𒍝𒆜𒉿𒆜𒅆𒅀 ''Zaišpîšiya'' is unclear — Hinz believes it represents an adjectival form of the name, ''*Čaišpišya'', but Schmitt prefers the reading ''*Čašpišya'' instead and says the two names are unrelated.

Vasily Abayev Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev ( os, Абайты Иваны фырт Васо; russian: Василий Иванович Абаев, also transliterated as Abayev and Abayti; 15 December 1900 – 18 March 2001) was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet ...

proposed that ''Čišpiš'' represents an Iranian form of the Old Indian ''sú-śiśvi'', meaning "growing well".

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suggested a possible relation to the Sogdian ''čp'yš'', meaning "leader". Tavernier, however, does not think either proposal is convincing. Another Iranian derivation proposed by Wojciech Skalmowski is that the name is a compound related to Old Indian ''cit-'', "thought, intelligence", and ''pi-'', "to swell, overflow". As for Elamite derivations, Tavernier says that no good one has been found. The verb stem ''piš-'', meaning "to renew, restore", is indeed found in some Elamite names, but the first part is hard to explain. Tavernier suggests a possible connection with ''šišnali'', "beautiful", which occurs as ''šiš'' in some compounds; an Elamite name ''*Šišpiš'' could then mean "renewing the beautiful". However, this would not explain why the name is spelled ''Zišpiš'' in Elamite, since ''šišnali'' is only ever spelled with a ''š''. Another person named ''Čišpiš'' is also attested in the Persepolis tablets. This person is mentioned in tablets from 503 and 502 BCE as the recipient of various amounts of grain, and is associated with a place in Elam called Zila-Umpan.

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