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The Arshama Letters from the Bodleian Library. This scholarly edition, with commentary and introduction, of the letters of the Persian satrap Arshama preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, comprises (in Volume 1) a lengthy introductory section (by Tuplin) as well as short introductory remarks (by Ma) and an essay on material considerations in relation to letters and seals (by Lindsay Allen); (in volume 2) the text and translation of the Bodleian Arshama letters (primarily the work of David Taylor); (in volume 3) a commentary on the text (by Tuplin) and finally (in volume 4) abbreviations and bibliography. The design of the website content is based on a project jointly conceived by Tuplin and John Ma, and both have also taken joint responsibility for editing the content.

This scholarly edition, with commentary and introduction, of the letters of the Persian satrap Arshama preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, comprises an introduction (by Tuplin), the text and translation (primarily the work of David Taylor), an essay on material considerations in relation to letters and seals (by Lindsay Allen), and a commentary on the text (by Tuplin). The design of the website content is based on a project jointly conceived by Tuplin and John Ma, and both have also taken joint responsibility for editing the content.

This scholarly edition grew out of the AHRC funded network and workshops, ‘Communication, language and power in the Achaemenid empire: the correspondence of the satrap Arshama’, coordinated by Tuplin and John Ma. The project as a whole absorbed the equivalent of two years of Tuplin’s time, including the preparations for, participation in, and coordination of the workshop activities and related exhibition. The draft of the commentary was substantially completed in the first 3 months of 2012, and revised through a six-month period of internal leave in 2013.