num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World
titlecomplete: Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)
genres: History
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Oxford University Press