Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions

Maria Brosius is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle

• 1. Ancient Archives and Concepts of Record Keeping: An Introduction ; 2. Archival Record-keeping at Ebla 2400-2350 BC ; 3. Archival Practices in Third-millennium Babylonia ; 4. Private and Public: The Ur-Utu Archive at Sippar-Amnanum (Tell Ed-Der) ; 5. Archives of Old Assyrian Traders ; 6. Documents in Government Under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom ; 7. Local Differences in Arrangements of Ration Lists on Minoan Crete ; 8. 'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenean Greek Linear B Records ; 9. Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives ; 10. Aramaic Documents of the Assyrian and Achaemenid Periods ; 11. Record-keeping Practices as Revealed by teh neo-Babylonian Private Archival Documents ; 12. Reconstructing an Archive: Account and Journal Texts from Persepolis ; 13. Cuneiform Arcgives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Contents and Form ; 14. They Did Not Write on Clay: Non-Cuneiform Documents and Archives in Seleucid Mesopotamia ; 15. Greek Archives: From Record to Monument ; 16. Tomoi Synkollesimoi

The quality of the contributions is uniformly high ... Several of the chapters offer excellent surveys of the archival materials and practices of the civilizations on which they focus, and these ought to be accessible to motivated undergraduates as well as graduate students and teachers; those by Steinkeller, Palaima, and Davies stand out in this respect.