Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World

Name: Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
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ISBN: 9780199252459

ISBN-10: 0199252459

ISBN-13: 9780199252459

Edition: 2003

Authors: Maria Brosius

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Our oldest archival records originate from the Near East. Systems of archival record-keeping developed over several millennia in Mesopotamia before spreading to Egypt, the Mycenean world, and the Persian empire, and continuing through the Hellenistic and Seleucid periods. Yet we know little about the way archival practices were established, transmitted, modified, and adapted by other civilizations. This interdisciplinary volume offers a systematic approach to archival documents and to the societies which created them, addressing questions of formal aspects of creating, writing, and storing ancient documents, and showing how archival systems were copied and adapted across a wide geographical…

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List price: $280.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.82" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


Map: Sites of archives referred to in the volume



Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record-Keeping: An Introduction




Archival Record-Keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 B.C.




Archival Practices at Babylonia in the Third Millennium




Private and Public: The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell ed-Der)




Archives of Old Assyrian Traders




Documents in Government under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom




Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan Crete




'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenaean Greek Linear B Records




Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives




Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods




Record-Keeping Practices as Revealed by the Neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents




Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis




Cuneiform Archives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Content and Form




They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia




Greek Archives: From Record to Monument




Tomoi Synkollesimoi



Index