Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199252459
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 224x145x25 mm
- Weight 663 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, line drawings and 1 map 0
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Short description:
This interdisciplinary study offers a systematic approach to ancient archival documents from the Near East, the Mycenean world, and classical Greece. The contributions aim to achieve a richer understanding of archival documents - by addressing questions of formal aspects of creating, writing, and storing ancient documents - and to discover how concepts of record-keeping were adapted by different ancient societies in the ancient world.
MoreLong description:
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 area and an extensive period of time.
The quality of the contributions is uniformly high ... Several of the chapters offer excellent surveys of the archival materials and practices of the civilizations on which they focus, and these ought to be accessible to motivated undergraduates as well as graduate students and teachers; those by Steinkeller, Palaima, and Davies stand out in this respect.
Table of Contents:
Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping: An Introduction
Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC
Archival Practices in Third-millennium Babylonia
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 Mycenean Greek Linear B Records
Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives
Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods
Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by teh neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents
Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis
Cuneiform Arcgives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Contents and Form
They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia
Greek Archives: From Record to Monument
Tomoi Synkollesimoi
