Technical Information and Services Act. Hearings on S. 493.May 19-23, 28, 1947
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 264
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 810
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher J. Tuplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0192652559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Aršāma, 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 Aršāama 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. Particular 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, Aršāma'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 Aršāma dossier is not alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon a single individual give it a unique quality. Though this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context 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 bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Aršāma'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 Aršāma and the letters belonged.
Author: Columbia University. Teachers College
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 132
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