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Mersana (Persian: مرسانا) is a Persian feminine given name.
Origin and historical forms
[edit]The name Mersana has been discussed in relation to the ancient personal name Marsena (Marsēnā), a name associated with Persian contexts in ancient sources.
Marsena appears in the Book of Esther (Esther 1:14) as one of the seven officials of the Persian and Median court. The name is written in Hebrew as מַרְסְנָא. Scholars of Iranian names have examined Marsena as an Iranian personal name preserved in a Hebrew textual tradition.[1]
Achaemenid evidence
[edit]A related personal name is recorded in the Persepolis Fortification Archive, a collection of administrative tablets from the Achaemenid period.
Richard T. Hallock published the name Mar-se-na in tablet PF 522 in his edition of the Persepolis Fortification Tablets.[2]
The relationship between the Marsena mentioned in Esther and the Persepolis form has been discussed by scholars of the Achaemenid period. Edwin M. Yamauchi compared the name Marsena in Esther with the Marsena recorded in PF 522.[3]
Iranian onomastic studies
[edit]Marsena has been included in studies of Iranian personal names. Mayrhofer and Tavernier examined Iranian names preserved in Achaemenid-period sources and related traditions.[4][5]
Some studies discuss Marsena in relation to Iranian name formations containing the element MRS and the suffix -āna-.[6]
Modern usage
[edit]The Persian form Mersana (Persian: مرسانا) is used as a feminine given name in contemporary Persian. Contemporary name databases, including Wikidata, record Mersana as a Persian given name.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Ego, Beate (2023). Ester (2nd ed.). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- ↑ Hallock, Richard T. (1969). Persepolis Fortification Tablets. University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ Yamauchi, Edwin M. (1992). "Mordecai, the Persepolis Tablets, and the Susa Excavations". Vetus Testamentum. 42 (2): 272–275.
- ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1973). Onomastica Persepolitana: Das altiranische Namengut der Persepolis-Täfelchen.
- ↑ Tavernier, Jan (2007). Iranica in the Achaemenid Period. Peeters.
- ↑ Ego, Beate (2023). Ester (2nd ed.).
- ↑ "Mersana (Q141520835)". Wikidata. Wikimedia Foundation.
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