Download e-book for iPad: Bronze Age Bureaucracy by Nicholas Postgate

By Nicholas Postgate

ISBN-10: 1107043751

ISBN-13: 9781107043756

ISBN-10: 1107619025

ISBN-13: 9781107619029

This booklet describes ten varied executive records of cuneiform capsules from Assyria, utilizing them to examine the social and fiscal personality of the center Assyrian country, in addition to the jobs and practices of writing. The drugs, lots of that have now not been edited or translated, have been excavated on the capital, Assur, and within the provinces, and so they supply shiny info to light up matters reminiscent of choices to the nationwide shrine, the economic climate and political position of elite families, palace etiquette, and state-run agriculture. This e-book concentrates rather on how the Assyrian use of written documentation affected the character and ethos of presidency, and compares this to modern practices in different palatial administrations at Nuzi, Alalah, Ugarit, and in Greece.

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