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17 - Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
University of Cambridge : A - Archaeology
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Book title
Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Cambridge University Press
ISBN of book
9781107043756
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
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Proposed double-weighted
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Double-weighted statement
This book uses cuneiform archives to reconstruct the administrative activities and procedures of the Middle Assyrian state. Particular emphasis is placed on the role and practice of writing and how this affected the nature and ethos of government, both in Assyria and contemporary Nuzi, Alalakh, Ugarit and Mycenaean Greece. Many of the hundreds of documents have never been edited or translated, the ten archives described have not previously been studied in this way (and some have not been discussed at all). This work has occupied the author continuously during his tenure of a three year Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2009-2012.
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