Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions

Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World

AvBROSIUS,Maria Brosius

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-13
Mått:145 x 224 x 25 mm
Vikt:663 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199252459

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Maria Brosius is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle

Recensioner i media

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.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping: An Introduction ; 2. Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC ; 3. Archival Practices in Third-millennium Babylonia ; 4. Private and Public: The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell Ed-Der) ; 5. Archives of Old Assyrian Traders ; 6. Documents in Government Under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom ; 7. Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan Crete ; 8. 'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenean Greek Linear B Records ; 9. Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives ; 10. Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods ; 11. Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by teh neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents ; 12. Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis ; 13. Cuneiform Arcgives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Contents and Form ; 14. They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia ; 15. Greek Archives: From Record to Monument ; 16. Tomoi Synkollesimoi