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Preliminaries

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Contents

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Preface

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Contributors

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Administrative Epistolography in Ancient Empires: An Introduction

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I Epistolography in the Ancient Near East

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Some Like It Hot: Reflections on the Historical “Temperature” of Letters from Mesopotamian Royal Archives

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Special Cases and Legal Matters: Diction and Function of Letters in the State of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2110–2003 BC)

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To Write or Not to Write: The Duty of Information Towards the King in the Amorite Near East (20th–17th Centuries B.C.)

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Les lettres des rois d’Aššur découvertes à Kaniš (XIXe siècle av. J.-C.)

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Royal Pen Pals: The kings of Assyria in Correspondence with Officials, Clients and Total Strangers (8th and 7th Centuries BC)

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Doing the King’s Work: Perceptions of Service in the Assyrian Royal Correspondence

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Idiolects and Identities in the Neo-Assyrian Epistolary Corpus

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Rhetorics, Politeness, Persuasion and Argumentation in Late Babylonian Epistolography: The Contrast Between Official Correspondence and Private Letters

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Royal Strategies of Representation and the Language(s) of Power: Some Considerations on the Audience and the Dissemination of the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions

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II Epistolography in the Classical World

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Amtliche Ermahnungsbriefe aus dem hellenistischen Ägypten

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Communications between City and King in the Hellenistic East

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Die Korrespondenz hellenistischer und römischer Herrscher aus der Perspektive modernen Managements

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Three Revolutions in Government

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The Epistolary Genre of Classical Antiquity and the Epigraphy of Early Imperial Galatia: the ‘Appendix’ to the Res Gestae

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Die römischen Amtsträger und die sozialen Gruppen im Imperium Romanum: Der Reflex in der epigraphischen Dokumentation

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Tradition, Precedent, and Power in Roman Egypt

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III Epistolography in Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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“The Augusti and Caesars Say”: Imperial Communication in a Collegiate Monarchy

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Diktion und Funktionalität verwaltungsinterner Korrespondenz von Amtsträgern des Sicherheitswesens im spätantiken Ägypten

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Des villageois en quête de lettres officielles: le cas des pétitionnaires d’Aphrodité (Égypte, VIe s. ap. J.-C.)

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The Rhetoric of Power and the Voice of Reason: Tensions Between Central and Local in the Correspondence of Qurra ibn Sharīk

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Empireness in Arabic Letter Formulae

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Performatives in Arabic Administrative Speech

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Index

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Plates

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