He is indeed the only monarch of the Achaemenian line who appears to have been bloodthirsty by temperament.
The Saseanian reliefs need not on the whole shrink from a comparison with those of the Achaemenian Persians.
The Achaemenian sovereign did not hesitate to forestall the attack, and promptly assumed the offensive.
Anzan had been first occupied, it would appear, by his great-grandfather Teispes the Achaemenian.
The Achaemenian kings joined him occasionally with Ormazd in their invocations.
