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State Correspondence in the Ancient World - From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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State Correspondence in the Ancient World - From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Early Empires
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This book introduces the reader to the state correspondences of
centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle
East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses
their role in ensuring the success and stability of these
geographically extensive state systems. Letters play an important
role in the cohesion of early empires, by enabling reliable and
confidential long-distance communication and by facilitating the
successful delegation of power from the central administration to
the provinces - challenges that in the absence of major
technological advances remain constants of government throughout
this long period. State Correspondence in the Ancient World brings
together primary sources from New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite
kingdom, the Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid empires, the
Hellenistic world and the Imperium Romanum. This study's goals are
twofold: Firstly, to describe the available material and its
original context and transmission: what do we have and what don't
we have - and why? And, secondly, to highlight these
correspondences' role in maintaining empires, using a comparative
approach in order to draw out similarities and differences. The
volume is an edited collection of nine chapters written by
established scholars with first-hand expertise in working with the
source materials: papyri, clay tablets, inscriptions and law
codices written in Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian), Aramaic,
Egyptian, Greek, Hittite and Latin. This unique collection will be
enormously useful to students and scholars of ancient Egyptian,
Near Eastern, and Mediterranean history.
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