Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions
副标题: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780199252459
出版社: Oxford University Press
出版年: 2003-5-8
页数: 384
定价: USD 215.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
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.