The long list of notables assembled for the dedication of the image grades them according to status. Satraps is a transliteration of the Greek word which, in turn, represents a Median original. The word means “protector” and it was used in the Persian empire for a governor of a province Prefects and governors are Semitic words of Assyrian origin, often used in the Old Testament, mostly in texts relating to the exilic and post-exilic periods. Counsellors is a word of Persian origin and is unique to Daniel in extant Aramaic literature. Of the remaining terms those translated justices and magistrates occur so far only in Daniel and in Aramaic documents of the sixth and fifth centuries.