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Zusatztext ...a remarkable glimpse of the wider horizon which disciplinary boundaries usually discourage us from seeing. Informationen zum Autor Maria Brosius is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary study that offers a systematic approach to ancient archival documents from the Near East, the Mycenean world, and classical Greece. This book addresses questions of formal aspects of creating, writing, and storing ancient documents, and how concepts of record-keeping were adapted by different societies in the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Maria Brosius: Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping: An Introduction 2: Alfonso Archi: Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC 3: Piotr Steinkeller: Archival Practices in Third-millennium Babylonia 4: Karel van Lerberghe: Private and Public: The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell Ed-Der) 5: Klaas R. Veenhof: Archives of Old Assyrian Traders 6: Nicholas Postgate: Documents in Government Under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom 7: Alexander Uchitel: Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan Crete 8: Thomas Palaima: 'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenean Greek Linear B Records 9: Frederico Mario Fales: Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives 10: Alan Millard: Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods 11: Heather Baker: Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by teh neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents 12: Maria Brosius: Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis 13: Joachim Oelsner: Cuneiform Arcgives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Contents and Form 14: Antonio Invernizzi: They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia 15: John K. Davies: Greek Archives: From Record to Monument 16: Willy Clarysse: Tomoi Synkollesimoi ...