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Title:Archives and Archival Traditions : Concepts of Record-keeping in the Ancient WorldSeries:Oxford Studies in Ancient DocumentsAuthor:Brosius, MariaPublisher:Oxford University PressYear:2003Description: 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.This book is intended for ancient historians, assyriologists, and schoalrs interested in the tradition of archival practicesContents:Maria Brosius, Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping - An IntroductionAlfonso Archi, Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BCPiotr Steinkeller, Archival Practices in Third-millennium BabyloniaKarel van Lerberghe, Private and Public, The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell Ed-Der);Klaas R. Veenhof, Archives of Old Assyrian TradersNicholas Postgate, Documents in Government Under the Middle Assyrian KingdomAlexander Uchitel, Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan CreteThomas Palaima, "Archives" and "Scribes" and Information Hierarchy in Mycenean Greek Linear B RecordsFrederico Mario Fales, Reflections on Neo-Assyrian ArchivesAlan Millard, Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid PeriodsHeather Baker: Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by teh neo-Babylonian Private Archival DocumentsMaria Brosius, Reconstructing an Archive -Account and Journal Texts from PersepolisJoachim Oelsner, Cuneiform Archives in Hellenistic Babylonia - Aspects of Contents and FormAntonio Invernizzi, They Did Not Write on Clay - Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid MesopotamiaJohn K. Davies, Greek Archives - From Record to MonumentWilly Clarysse, Tomoi Synkollesimoi.ISBN:0199252459Found athttp://contents.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/contents/index.html