Bronze Age Bureaucracy - Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Postgate was Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2013 and Fellow of Trinity College. He directed excavations at the Sumerian city at Abu Salabikh in South Iraq from 1973 to 1989, and at the Bronze and Iron Age settlement at Kilise Tepe in South Turkey from 1994 to 2012. His articles have been published in Iraq, Revue d'Assyriologie, the Journal of Cuneiform Studies, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Sumer, and Anatolian Studies. He is author of Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History, editor of several volumes of Assyrian documents, and co-editor of A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Klappentext Analysing ten different archives of cuneiform tablets, this book describes the society and economy of the Middle Assyrian state. Zusammenfassung This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria! using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state! as well as the roles and practices of writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The land of Assur in the late Bronze Age; 3. Writing in Assyria: the scribes and their output; 4. Archives at Assur; 5. Archives in the provinces; 6. The government of Assyria and its impact; 7. Nuzi, the nearest neighbor; 8. Western contemporaries: Alalah, Ugarit and Greece; 9. The records of government.

Product details

• Authors: J. N. Postgate, Nicholas Postgate, Nicholas (University of Cambridge) Postgate, Postgate Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107619029
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61902-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Palaeography (History Of Writing), BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Assyria, Assyrian Empires