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The third of three volumes offering a detailed presentation of a set of letters associated with Arš¿ma, satrap in Egypt in the later fifth century BC and the
bullae that sealed them. This volume explores the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic context of the letters.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1: Christopher J. Tuplin: Arš¿ma: Prince and Satrap
- 2. Letters and Administration
- 2.1: Jan Tavernier: Persian in Official Documents and the Processes of Multilingual Administration
- 2.2: Jennifer Hilder: Masterful Missives: Form and Authority in Arš¿ma's Letters
- 2.3: Michael Jursa: The Arš¿ma Corpus through the Lens of Babylonian Epistolography
- 3. Control and Connectivity
- 3.1: Amélie Kuhrt: The Persian Empire
- 3.2: Arthur P. Keaveney: Frustrated Frondeurs or Loyal Kings Mena Nobles at the Achaemenid Court
- 3.3: Eran Almagor: The Royal Road from Herodotus to Xenophon (via Ctesias)
- 4. Economics
- 4.1: John Ma: Arš¿ma the Vampire
- 4.2: Alain Bresson: Silverization, Prices, and Tribute in the Achaemenid Empire
- 4.3: John O. Hyland: Arš¿ma, Egyptian Trade, and the Peloponnesian War
- 5. Egyptian Perspectives
- 5.1: Günter Vittmann: The Multi-Ethnic World of Achaemenid Egypt
- 5.2: Lisbeth S. Fried: Aramaic Texts and the Achaemenid Administration of Egypt
- 5.3: Christopher J. Tuplin: The Military Environment of Achaemenid Egypt
- 5.4: Gard Granerød: The Passover and the Temple of YHW: On the Interaction between the Authorities and the Judaean Community at Elephantine as Reflected in the Yedanyah Archive
- 5.5: Christopher J. Tuplin: The Fall and Rise of the Elephantine Temple
- 5.6: Dorothy J. Thompson: After Arš¿ma: Persian Echoes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt
About the author
Christopher J. Tuplin is Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool.
John Ma is Professor of Classics at Columbia University.
Summary
The third of three volumes offering a detailed presentation of a set of letters associated with Aršama, satrap in Egypt in the later fifth century BC and the bullae that sealed them. This volume explores the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic context of the letters.
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three superb volumes ... based on an impressive cross-disciplinary collaboration between specialists in Greek, Egyptian, Aramaic, Jewish, Babylonian, and Iranian studies; one can only dream that one day they will be required reading in all graduate programmes in ancient history.
