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17 - Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
University of Cambridge : A - Archaeology
Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria
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.