Topic: archives (2)

• PersonArshama, satrap of Egypt

  Arshama (Old Persian Aršāma; Aramaic ʾršm; Greek Arsames) was an Achaemenid prince who governed Egypt, among the empire’s richest and most rebellious provinces, through the later fifth century BCE. On the leading reconstruction he held the satrapy from about 454, after the suppression of the…

• SourceThe Murašû Archive

  The Murašû Archive is the business file of a firm of entrepreneurs at Nippur in central Babylonia, active under the Persian kings Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Artaxerxes II. It is the single richest documentary source for the countryside of the empire's wealthiest province in the later fifth…