Travel authorisation by Arshama

The only surviving example of a halmi, an authorisation from a satrap to a lower official to travel on a royal road across the empire and draw supplies from road-stations en route. This document comes from the Arshama archive, which we looked at in fifth week. 

See: A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (2007), 739-41;  Brosius no. 184.

Translation:
(§1) From Arshama to Marduk, the officer who is at [...], Nabudalani, the officer who is at La‘ir, Zatohi, the officer who is at ’Arzuhin, Upastabar, the officer who is at Arbela, Halsu, and Mat-al-Ubaš, Bagapharna, the officer who is at Sa‘lam, Phradapharna and Gavazana, the officers who are at Damascus.
(§2) Now, behold: My officer Nehtihur is travelling [from Susa] to Egypt.
(§3) Give him as provisions from my estate which is in your district every day two measures of white meal, three measures of grey meal, two measures of wine or beer, and one sheep; and for his 10 servants, one measure of meal per day for each, and hay according to the number of horses.  And give provisions for two Cilicians and one craftsman, all three of them my servants, who are going with him to Egypt, one measure of meal per day for each.
(§4) Give them these provisions, each officer among you in turn, in accordance with the stages of his journey from province to province until he reaches Egypt.  And if he is more than one day in any place, do not assign them further provisions for those days.
(§5) Bagasrava knows this order; Rašt is the clerk.