Talmai — Addition B 1: The edict's address: the great king writes to all his governors.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.3.1a-7a

GREEK: Τῆς δὲ ἐπιστολῆς ἐστὶν τὸ ἀντίγραφον τόδε· Βασιλεὺς μέγας Ἀρταξέρξης τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς ἕως τῆς Αἰθιοπίας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ χωρῶν ἄρχουσι καὶ τοπάρχαις ὑποτεταγμένοις τάδε γράφει.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): Now this is the copy of the letter: The great king Artaxerxes writes this to the rulers of the hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia, and to the subordinate governors.

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 6 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: medieval retranslation. The midrash quotes Haman's anti-Jewish letter as a full document with an epistolary opening ('Peace to you...we inform you'), the same device Addition B uses to quote the royal edict verbatim -- a narration MT never supplies (MT only summarizes the letters).
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 3:16 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. MT Esth 3:12 says letters were written but supplies no text; both this witness and Addition B independently invent a full quoted royal letter to fill that exact gap -- the shared device is the invented speech itself.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 3:18 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. The Aramaic recension is a second, independent invented full text of the same unquoted MT letter, closing with its own 'copy of the letter' colophon like Addition B's.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:25 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. Glosses 'patshegen ha-ketav' with the Greek loanword 'antigrafon d'iggarta,' directly preserving Addition B's own heading phrase (antigraphon tes epistoles) as the midrash's lemma -- though note that LXX Esth 3:14 (non-plus, MT-parallel text) already renders patshegen with a form of antigraphon, so the loanword itself may predate the plus; still, the specific Greek document-heading vocabulary is a genuine, distinctive match.