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Arsama and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context - Volume I: The Bodleian Letters (Hardcover, 1)
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Arsama and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context - Volume I: The Bodleian Letters (Hardcover, 1)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
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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.
Particular highlights include a travel authorization (the only
example of something implicit in numerous Persepolis documents),
texts about the religious life of the Judaean garrison at
Elephantine, Arsama's magnificent seal (a masterpiece of Achaemenid
glyptic, inherited from a son of Darius I), and echoes of temporary
disturbances to Persian management of Egypt. But what is also
impressive is the underlying sense of systematic coherence founded
on and expressed in the use of formal, even formalized, written
communication as a means of control. The Arsama dossier is not
alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon
a single individual give it a unique quality. 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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