After the victory in 546 B.C. of Cyrus över Croesus, king of Lydia, the Persian.s held sovereignty in Anatolia for a period of about two centuries, that is, until the time of the attack of Alcxander the Great on Iran'. 4ccording to Achaemcnian inseriptions four out of thirty-one satrapie.s were in Anatolia, Cappadocia, Sardis, lonia and Caria^.The Corning and going of governmental officials and artists and of the inliabitants of Anatolia for cducational as wcll as political purposes and for trade with the Persian heartland made the Anatolians familiar with Pcrsian arts.