Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions : Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World Hardback
Edited by Maria (, Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle) Brosius
Part of the Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents series
Hardback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, numerous halftones, line drawings and 1 map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2003
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- ISBN:9780199252459
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, numerous halftones, line drawings and 1 map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199252459
