- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Imperial Present
- 1. The Seleucid Era and Its Epoch
- 2. A Government of Dating
- 3. Dynastic Time
- II. Indigenous Past and Future
- 4. Total History 1: Rupture and Historiography
- 5. Total History 2: Periodization and Apocalypse
- 6. Altneuland: Resistance and the Resurrected State
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables*
- Index
- * Maps, Illustrations, and Tables
- Maps
- Map 1. The geography and topography of the Seleucid empire
- Map 2. Babylonia and western Iran
- Map 3. Southern Levant
- Map 4. Western Asia Minor
- Map 5. Greater Armenia
- Illustrations
- Figure 1. The house of Seleucus (simplified)
- Figure 2. Saros Tablet
- Figure 3. Tax bulla from Seleucia-on-the-Tigris
- Figure 4. Plan of the Dura-Europus archive complex
- Figure 5. Excavated depot (Room A3) of the Dura-Europus archive
- Figure 6. Seleucia-on-the-Tigris agora
- Figure 7. Plan of Kedesh administrative building
- Figure 8. Interred child, Kedesh archive
- Figure 9. Stone sekōma, Maresha
- Figure 10. Handle of a jar, Tel Aviv
- Figure 11. Lead weight, Demetrias-by-the-Sea
- Figure 12. Bronze coin of Alexander I Balas, Apamea-on-the-Axios
- Figure 13. Heliodorus inscription, Maresha
- Figure 14. Cut-up σε᾽ lead weight, Maresha
- Figure 15. Tetradrachm of Diodotus Tryphon
- Figure 16. Palace of Adad-nādin-aḥḥē, Girsu
- Figure 17. Stamped brick of Adad-nādin-aḥḥē
- Figure 18. Statue B of Gudea
- Figure 19. Statue B of Gudea, detail with architectural plan
- Figure 20. Coins of (a) Ardaxšīr I, (b) Vadfradad I, (c) Vahbarz, (d) Baydād, and (e) Seleucus I
- Figure 21. Tomb of Darius I, Naqš-i Rustam
- Figure 22. Throne bas-relief, Persepolis
- Figure 23. Palace H, Persepolis, with reused staircase facade of Artaxerxes III
- Figure 24. Reconstructed plan of Palace H, Persepolis
- Figure 25. Plan of Artaxata citadel area, Armenia
- Figure 26. Rebuilt Urartian wall, Artaxata
- Figure 27. Boundary stone of Artaxias I
- Tables
- Table 1. Saros Tablet
- Table 2. Year-date formulae at Babylon, from Alexander’s death to the Seleucid Era
- Table 3. Comparison of the Seleucid Era (Babylonian) and Seleucid Era (Macedonian) dating of the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- Table 4. Greek alphabetic numbers
- Table 5. The Dynastic Prophecy
- Maps
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