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During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Arsama, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material associated with him (mostly in Aramaic, Demotic Egyptian, and Akkadian), they illuminate the Achaemenid world of which Arsama was a privileged member and evoke a wide range of social, economic, cultural, organizational, and political perspectives, from multi-lingual communication, storage and disbursement of resources, and satrapal remuneration, to cross-regional ethnic movement, long-distance travel, religious practice, and iconographic projection of ideological messages. Though this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of 'Arsama and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context' to provide the fullest presentation and historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsama's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Arsama and the letters belonged.
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Aršāma and his world : the Bodleian letters in context / edited by Christopher J. Tuplin and John Ma.
Volume I. The Bodleian letters -- Volume II. Bullae and seals -- Volume III. Aršāma's world. Volume I. The Bodleian letters. 1. Introduction. Preface / John Ma and Christopher J. Tuplin -- The Bodleian Achaemenid Aramaic letters : a fragmentary history / Lindsay Allen. 2. The Bodleian letters. The Bodleian letters : text and translation / D.G.K. Taylor -- The Bodleian letters : glossary and concordance / D.G.K. Taylor -- The Bodleian letters : commentary / Christopher J. Tuplin. 3. Appendix. The Egyptian documents / H.S. Smith, Cary J. Martin, and Christopher J. Tuplin -- The Akkadian documents / Reinhard Pirngruber -- Photographic record / Christopher J. Tuplin. Volume II. Bullae and seals. Catalogue of Bullae / Mark B. Garrison and Deniz Kaptan -- The seal of prince Aršāma : from Persepolis to Oxford / Mark B. Garrison and Wouter F.M. Henkelman -- Appendix. Elamite texts concerning Aršāma 1 / Wouter F.M. Henkelman -- The stamp seal / Mark B. Garrison and Deniz Kaptan -- Anatolian connectionsand historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsama's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Arsama and the letters belonged. Deniz Kaptan -- Nakhtḥor in Persepolis / Wouter F.M. Henkelman -- Appendix. Seals associated with satraps and satrap-level administrators / Mark B. Garrison. Volume III. Aršāma's world. 1. Introduction. Aršāma : prince and satrap / Christopher J. Tuplin. 2. Letters and administration. Persian in official documents and the processes of multilingual administration / Jan Tavernier -- Masterful Missives : Form and Authority in Aršāma s Letters / Jennifer Hilder -- The Aršāma Corpus through the Lens of Babylonian Epistolography / Michael Jursa. 3. Control and connectivity. The Persian Empire / Amélie Kuhrt -- Frustrated Frondeurs or Loyal Kings' Men? Nobles at the Achaemenid Court / Arthur P. Keaveney -- The Royal Road from Herodotus to Xenophon (via Ctesias) / Eran Almagor. 4. Economics. Aršāma the vampire / John Ma -- Silverization, Prices, and Tribute in the Achaemenid Empire / Alain Bressonsand historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsama's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Arsama and the letters belonged. Aršāma, Egyptian Trade, and the Peloponnesian War / John O. Hyland. 5. Egyptian perspectives. The Multi-Ethnic World of Achaemenid Egypt / Günter Vittmann -- Aramaic Texts and the Achaemenid Administration of Egypt / Lisbeth S. Fried -- The Military Environment of Achaemenid Egypt / Christopher J. Tuplin -- 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 / Gard Granerød -- The Fall and Rise of the Elephantine Temple / Christopher J. Tuplin -- After Aršāma : Persian Echoes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson.
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