"Persian treasure cities - how many" Topic

When Alexander conquered the Persian Empire he acquired a number of royal Treasuries.

Is there a listing anywhere and what they held.

How long did it take the Successors to run out of the money?

Achaemenid Taxation:
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references:
G. G. Cameron, Persepolis Treasury Tablets, Chicago, 1948; reviewed by F. Altheim, Gnomon 23, 1951, pp. 187-93.

M.A. Dandamayev, "State and Temple in Babylonia in the First Millennium B.C.," in E. Lipiński, ed., State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East II, Leuven, 1979, pp. 589-96.

Idem and V. G. Lukonin, The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran, Cambridge, 1989. W. Hinz, "Achämenidische Hofverwaltung," ZA 61, 1971, pp. 260-311.

H. Koch, Verwaltung und Wirtschaft im persischen Kernland zur Zeit der Achämeniden, Wiesbaden, 1990.

A. T. Olmstead, History of the Persian Empire, Chicago, 1948.

A. L. Oppenheim, "A Fiscal Practice of the Ancient Near East," JNES 6, 1947, pp. 116-20.

M. W. Stolper, Entrepreneurs and Empire: The Murašû Archive, The Murašû Firm, and Persian Rule in Babylonia, Leiden, 1985.

C. C. Torrey, "The Evolution of a Financier in the Ancient Near East," JNES 2, 1943, pp. 295-301.

T. Cuyler Young, "The Persian Empire," CAH 2 IV, pp. 1-111.

Successors (Seleucids) "ran out" of this money source from the east when the Parthians occupied Seleucia on the Tigris and established their capitol at Ctesiphon, nearby in the 120's BC.

Numerous Seleucid emperors died while on raids to the east trying to plunder the tax centers and temples from Antiochus III onward (who died in 187 while attempting to raid temples in Elam and Luristan).

JJartist,

Thank you for those references.

Cheers,

I was not thinking of tax revenue, but the 100,000 talents in the treasure cities of the Persian Empire that Alexander gained,

thanks for the sources

I think you'd need something like Rostovtzeff's work to go into this.
The issue is confused by the inflation caused by flooding the Greek world with cash – the Successors spent rather more freely than the Persians, especially on things like mercenaries but also in more peaceful ways.
Compare with Philip II's income of just over 1000 talents a year – mostly from newly acquired mines.

As a guide to what later kings spent, Philip V paid 7200 men 17 talents a month. The pay may have stabilised somewhat after the initial glut, and it is difficult to know how much pay did rise in that time. (See Griffith's Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World).