Book: Archives and archival documents in ancient societies

Archives and archival documents in ancient societies

Title:	Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011
Authors:	Faraguna, Michele
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Citation:	Michele Faraguna (edited by), "Archives and archival documents in ancient societies: Legal documents in ancient societies IV, Trieste 30 September - 1 October 2011", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2013
Abstract:	This book, part of a series aiming to investigate the legal systems of ancient societies through a document-based, comparative approach, focuses on the study of archives and archival records and their interplay with the workings of administrative and political systems. The papers are arranged in four sections dealing with the Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, the Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Empire. The themes touched upon chronologically span from the early second millennium B.C. to the late Roman Empire and geographically range from Mesopotamia to the Western Mediterranean. The archives considered, public and private, are conspicuous for their variety and reflect diverse archival concepts and traditions but a number of common patterns also emerge in respect to their physical organization, to the classification of texts, the function of record-keeping and the role of seals. We are entitled to speak of a recurring ‘archival behaviour’.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10077/8650
ISBN:	978-88-8303-460-2

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SOMMARIO / CONTENTS

Michele Faraguna
Foreword
Dennis Kehoe
Archives and Archival Documents in Ancient Societies: Introduction
Ancient Near East
Sophie Démare-Lafont
Zero and Infinity: the Archives in Mesopotamia
Klaas R. Veenhof
The Archives of Old Assyrian Traders: their Nature, Functions and Use
Antoine JacquetFamily Archives in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period
Susanne Paulus
The Limits of Middle Babylonian Archives
Classical Greece
Christophe Pébarthe
Les archives de la cité de raison. Démocratie athénienne et pratiques documentaires à l’époque classique
Shimon Epstein
Attic Building Accounts from Euthynae to Stelae
Edward M. Harris
The Plaint in Athenian Law and Legal Procedure
Michele Faraguna
Archives in Classical Greece: Some Observations
The Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World
Ingo Kottsieper
Aramäische Archive aus achämenidischer Zeit und ihre Funktion
Laura Boffo
La ‘presenza’ dei re negli archivi delle poleis ellenistiche
Lucia Criscuolo
Copie, malacopie, copie d'ufficio e il problema della titolarità di un archivio nell’Egitto tolemaico
Mark Depauw
Reflections on Reconstructing Private and Official Archives The Roman Empire
Éva Jakab
Introduction: Archives in the Roman Empire
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu
Epigraphische Quellen zum Archivwesen in den griechischen Poleis des ausgehenden Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit
Thomas Kruse
Bevölkerungskontrolle, Statuszugang und Archivpraxis im römischen Ägypten
Rudolf Haensch
Die Statthalterarchive der Spätantike
Uri Yiftach-Firanko Conclusions
Index locorum