ABSTRACT

Trips to and from the court of King Darius I are richly documented from 509 to 493 BCE thanks to the Persepolis Fortification Archive. This paper analyzes patterns in the timing of these trips and demonstrates that trips to and from the court of the King peaked around the Persian New Year. The peak around the New Year is especially pronounced for trips between the King and distant regions. A number of these trips around the New Year involved the presentation of tax, as the article will show. In addition to the collection of tax, meetings at the royal court around the New Year served both the symbolic purpose of demonstrating the unity of a heterogenous empire and the administrative purpose of organising the imperial government.

摘要

多亏了波斯波利斯要塞档案馆，从公元前 509 年到 493 年，往返于国王大流士一世宫廷的旅行得到了丰富的记录。本文分析了这些旅行的时间安排，并证明往返国王宫廷的旅行在波斯新年前后达到顶峰。新年前后的高峰对于国王和遥远地区之间的旅行尤其明显。正如文章将显示的那样，新年前后的许多旅行都涉及税收的呈现。除了税收之外，元旦前后的宫廷会议既具有展示异质帝国统一的象征性目的，也具有组织帝国政府的行政目的。