Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions : Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
ISBN-10
0199252459
ISBN-13
9780199252459
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 13th, 2003
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
592 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.50 x 2.60 cms
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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.
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.
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