The Letter
Subtitle: law, state, society and the epistolary format in the Ancient world : proceedings of a colloquium held at the American Academy in Rome 28-30.9.2008
By: edited by Uri Yiftach-Firanko
Contributors: Yiftach-Firanko, Uri, editor
Series: Philippika -- 55,1; Philippika -- 55,1.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9783447067645
Subjects: Records and correspondence; Administrative agencies; Grekiska handskrifter; Law and legislation; Brief; Antike; Congresses; Rechtsquelle; Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri); Papyrer; History
Notes: International conference proceedings held at the American Academy in Rome, Italy the 28 to 30th of September 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.

Contributions in English, German and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Sophie Démare-Lafont, -- Michele Faraguna, -- Uri Yiftach-Firanko; title: La lettre comme instrument de l'administration royale en Mésopotamie  -- Sophie Démare-Lafont; title: "Garde ma lettre en témoignage" : le rôle de la correspondance dans le système juridique mésopotamien de la première moitié de deuxième millénaire av. n. è.  -- Dominique Charpin; title: Middle Assyrian summonses : the epistolary format in judicial procedures  -- Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum; title: The use (and abuse) of letters in the speeches of the attic orators  -- Paola Ceccarelli; title: Were there business agents in Classical Greece? : the evidence of some lead letters  -- Edward M. Harris; title: Greek letters on stone  -- James Sickinger; title: Briefe als Rechtsurkunden : Zu einigen aramäischen Briefen des Aršames  -- Ingo Kottsieper; title: The evolution and use of demotic contracts in epistolary form  -- Mark Depauw; title: Greek and demotic loan agreements in epistolary style : formalisation and registration in the later Ptolemaic period  -- Katelijn Vandorpe; title: Hybride cheirographa  -- Andrea Jördens; title: Der Brief in der Urkunde : Zur Briefform in spätantiken Verträgen  -- Sophie Kovarik; title: Urkunden in Briefform : Chirographum und Epistula im römischen Privatrecht  -- Éva Jakab; title: Pecunia constituta und stipulatio : Grenzen des Rechtsschutzes für formlose Geschäfte in römishen Recht -- Johannes Platschek.