Final conference - The Aršama Archive: Conclusions and Prospects
Please register by sending the form to john.ma@ccc.ox.ac.uk. before 19 June
There is a very limited amount of accommodation available for people who wish to attend the conference (at £64.50 per night): enquiries about this should be sent, by e-mail, at the same time as the registration form.
5-7 July, 2011
Provisional programme
5 July
9.30-9.45 Welcome and Introduction
9.45-10.30 Amelie Kuhrt
From the wider empire to the world of Arshama
10.30-11.15 Lindsay Allen
Provenance, conservation and material study of the Bodleian letters
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.30 Bezalel Porten
Aramaic in the Persian Empire: here, there and everywhere
12.30-1.15 Shaul Shaked
The late Achaemenid Empire viewed from Bactra
1.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.45 Jan Tavernier
Persian in official documents and the processes of multilingual administration
2.45-3.00 Michael Jursa
Imperium & Officium: bureaucracy & the imperial state
3.00-3.45 John Ma
Making things happen: the rhetoric of administration
3.45-4.00 Tea
4.00-4.45 Wouter Henkelman
Further perspectives on travel in the Achaemenid empire
5.00-6.00 Elamite class (Wouter Henkelman)
Wednesday 6 July
9.30-10.15 Arthur Keaveney
Frustrated frondeurs or loyal king’s men? Some remarks on the nobility at the Achaemenid court
10.15-11.00 Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
The King’s robe
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Deniz Kaptan
Arshama’s seal and the art of the western empire
12.15-1.00 Mark Garrison
The sealing of administrative documents: bureaucratic identity and ideological statement in Persia and the provinces
1.00-1.45 Lunch
1.45-2.30 Günter Vittmann
The multi-ethnic world of Persian Egypt
2.30-3.15 Lisbeth Fried
Did Local Autonomy exist in the Achaemenid Empire?
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.15 Gard Granerod
Jedaniah, the Temple of YHW at Elephantine and the Persian Authorities: Reflections upon the Jedaniah Archive
4.15-5.00 John Ray
The Achaemenid Impact upon Egypt
5.00-6.00 Elamite class (Wouter Henkelman)
Thursday 7 July
9.30-10.15 Christopher Tuplin
Machimoi & Medes: Soldiers in Achaemenid Egypt
10.15-11.00 John Hyland
Arshama, Egypt and the Peloponnesian War
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 John Ma
Arshama the vampire
12.15-1.00
Summary and prospects
1.00 Lunch and farewell
