Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire / edited by Kristin Kleber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleber, Kristin, editor.

Series:

Classica et orientalia ; 2190-3638 Bd. 26.

Classica et orientalia, 2190-3638 ; Band 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C.

Achaemenid dynasty.

Taxation--Iran--History.

Taxation.

Iran.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.

Summary:

Achaemenid Studies fall between the academic divisions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Archeology, Ancient History, Classical Philology, Egyptology and Semitic Languages. No single scholar can cover the many cultures that were united under the umbrella of this huge empire alone and in-depth. Interdisciplinary approaches are a necessity in order to tackle the challenges that the diverse textual records in Akkadian, Demotic Egyptian, Elamite, Aramaic and Greek present us with. This volume, the proceedings of a conference on taxation and fiscal administration in the Achaemenid Empire held in Amsterdam in 2018, contains contributions on Babylonia, Egypt, the Levant, Asia Minor and Arachosia, written by specialists in the respective languages and cultures. The question that lies at the basis of this volume is how the empire collected revenue from the satrapies, whether and how local institutions were harnessed to make imperial rule successful. The contributions investigate what kind of taxes were imposed in what area and how tax collection was organized and administered. Since we lack imperial state archives, local records are the more important, as they are our only reliable source that allows us to move beyond the famous but unverifiable statement on Achaemenid state finances in Herodotus, Histories 3, 89-97.-- back cover.

Contents:

Babylonia

Egypt and the levant

Asia minor and Arachosia.

Babylonia. Taxation and Fiscal Administration in Babylonia / Kristin Kleber

The ilku and Related Fiscal Obligations in Sixth Century Larsa / Odette Boivin

Nippur and its Region under the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Empires: A Fiscal History

Taxation in Neo-Babylonian Ur: Evidence from the Archive of the Gallābu Family / Olga V. Popova. Egypt and the Levant. Royal Taxes in Persian Egypt through Demotic Sources / Damien Agut-Labordère

Taxation of Ships and their Cargo in an Aramaic Papyrus from Egypt (TAD C3.7) / Margaretha Folmer

Fiscality in the World of Aršāma

Achaemenid Taxation and Administration in the Southern Levant (4th Century BCE) / André Lemaire

The Taxes of God and King? Taxation in Persian Period Judaean Materials / Jason M. Silverman. Asia Minor and Arachosia. Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire According to Greek Sources: The Case of Caria under Mausolus / Raymond Descat

The Aramaic Texts from Arachosia Reconsidered / Alexander Schütze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

E-book version

ISBN:

9783447115971

3447115971

OCLC:

1264031376

Publisher Number:

9783447115971