State correspondence in the ancient world : from New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire / ed. by Karen Radner
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 wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in early empires
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| Classification: | 15.26 - Alter Orient. Nordafrika 15.28 - Römisches Reich |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 306 S.; Ill., Kt.; 24 cm |
| Notes: | Literaturverz. S. [257] - 298 |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780199354771 |
| ac_no: | AC11411139 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Karen Radner |