Whatever the case may be, it seems highly unlikely that travellers carrying official documents and receiving state rations made unnecessary journeys to a vaguely identified ‘place’ and thus whether Kurmana, like Gandhara, was cogni- tively understood as a regional name, or a town/city, it seems inconceivable that the name did not imply a clearly understood destination, i.e. presumably the seat of Karki8, the SakSabama or “satrap” of Kurmana attested not infrequently in the Fortification texts (Henkelman & Stolper 2009: 302; Henkelman 2010: 704-13; Henkelman 2017: 50f., 209). The question is: when travellers left Susa for Kur- mana, what was their actual destination and, conversely, when travellers left Kur- mana for Susa, what was their point of departure?
