State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire
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- New York Oxford University Press 2014
- Oxford Studies in Early Empires .
Introduction : long-distance communication and the cohesion of early empires / Karen Radner -- Egyptian state correspondence of the New Kingdom : the letters of the Levantine client kings in the Amarna correspondence and contemporary evidence / Jana Mynarova -- State correspondence in the Hittite world / Mark Weeden -- An imperial communication network : the state correspondence of the neo-Assyrian empire / Karen Radner -- The lost state correspondence of the Babylonian empire as reflected in contemporary administrative letters / Michael Jursa -- State communications in the Persian Empire / Amelie Kuhrt -- The king's words : Hellenistic royal letters in inscriptions / Alice Bencivenni -- State correspondence in the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian / Simon Corcoran.
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Government correspondence--Middle East--History--To 1500 Government correspondence--Rome Imperialism--History--To 1500 Middle East--Colonies--Administration Rome--Colonies--Administration