Description |
xx, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Oxford studies in ancient documents
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Note |
Papers first presented at an Oxford workshop, held Sept. 17-19, 1998. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Ancient archives and concepts of record-keeping : an introduction / Maria Brosius -- Archival record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC / Alfonso Archi -- Archival practices at Babylonia in the Third millennium / Piotr Steinkeller -- Private and public : the Ur-Utu archive at Sippar-Amnānum (Tell ed-Dēr) / Karel van Lerberghe -- Archives of old Assyrian traders / Klaas R. Veenhof -- Documents in government under the Middle Assyrian kingdom / J.N. Postgate -- Local differences in arrangements of ration lists on Minoan Crete / Alexander Uchitel -- 'Archives' and 'scribes' and information hierarchy in Mycenaean Greek Linear B records / Thomas Palaima -- Reflections on neo-Assyrian archives / Frederick Mario Fales -- Aramaic documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid periods / Alan Millard -- Record-keeping practices as revealed by the neo-Babylonian private archival documents / Heather D. Baker. |
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Reconstructing an archive : account and journal texts from Persepolis / Maria Brosius -- Cuneiform archives in Hellenistic Babylonia : aspects of content and form / Joachim Oelsner -- They did not write on clay: non-cuneiform documents and archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia / Antonio Invernizzi -- Greek archives : from record to monument / John K. Davies -- Tomoi synkollēsimoi / Willy Clarysse. |
Subject |
Archives -- History -- To 500 -- Congresses.
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Added Author |
Brosius, Maria.
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ISBN |
0199252459 |
OCLC No. |
51108345 |
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