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Archaic Bookkeeping

Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

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This work brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium BC, this script, called proto-cuneiform, survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets, excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear context. In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets was not to record language but to monitor the administration of local economies by means of a numerical system.

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Archaic Bookkeeping, Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, Paul Larsen

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Jaar van publicatie
1993
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Titel
Archaic Bookkeeping
Ondertitel
Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East
Taal
Engels
Jaar van publicatie
1993
Formaat
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
184
ISBN10
0226586596
ISBN13
9780226586595
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This work brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium BC, this script, called proto-cuneiform, survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets, excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear context. In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets was not to record language but to monitor the administration of local economies by means of a numerical system.