Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Maria Brosius is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle
Table of Contents
1. Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping: An Introduction,
Maria Brosius2. Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC, Alfonso Archi
3. Archival Practices in Third-millennium Babylonia, Piotr Steinkeller
4. Private and Public: The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell Ed-Der), Karel van Lerberghe
5. Archives of Old Assyrian Traders, Klaas R. Veenhof
6. Documents in Government Under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom, Nicholas Postgate
7. Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan Crete, Alexander Uchitel
8. 'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenean Greek Linear B Records, Thomas Palaima
9. Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives, Frederico Mario Fales
10. Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods, Alan Millard
11. Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by the neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents, Heather Baker
12. Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis, Maria Brosius
13. Cuneiform Arcgives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Contents and Form, Joachim Oelsner
14. They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia, Antonio Invernizzi
15. Greek Archives: From Record to Monument, John K. Davies
16. Tomoi Synkollesimoi, Willy Clarysse