Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World

This interdisciplinary study offers a systematic approach to ancient archival documents from the Near East, the Mycenean world, and classical Greece. The contributions aim to achieve a richer understanding of archival documents--by addressing questions of formal aspects of creating, writing,
and storing ancient documents--and to discover how concepts of record-keeping were adapted by different ancient societies in the ancient world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199252459
• ISBN13: 9780199252459
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.7"