TY - BOOK AU - RADNER, Karen TI - State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire SN - 9780000000000 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Government correspondence--Middle East--History--To 1500 KW - Government correspondence--Rome KW - Imperialism--History--To 1500 KW - Middle East--Colonies--Administration KW - Rome--Colonies--Administration N1 - 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 ER -