{"product_id":"arsma-and-his-world-christopher-j-tuplin-9780198860716","title":"Ars\u0026#257;ma and His World: The Bodleian Letters in Context: Volume III: Ars\u0026#257;ma's World","description":"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 Arsāma, 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 Arsāma 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParticular 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, Arsāma'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 Arsāma dossier is not alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon a single individual give it a unique quality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of \u003cem\u003eArsāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ebullae\u003c\/em\u003e that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsāma'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 Arsāma and the letters belonged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher J. Tuplin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198860714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198860716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Christopher J. Tuplin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943936164095,"sku":"9780198860716","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_541cdd70-10d2-470a-9a34-04a244901315.jpg?v=1681500855","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/arsma-and-his-world-christopher-j-tuplin-9780198860716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}