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Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, and Robert K. Englund

Archaic Bookkeeping

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

Translated by Paul Larsen
184 pages, 68 halftones, 61 figures, 1 map  8-1/4 x 8-1/2  © 1993

Cloth $51.00

ISBN: 9780226586595   Published February 1994

Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Environmental Factors
2. The Chronological Framework
3. The Early History of Babylonia
4. Prehistoric Means of Administration
5. The Emergence of Writing
6. Archaic Numerical Sign Systems
7. The Archaic Bookkeeping System
8. The Administrative Activities of Kushim
9. The Development of Bookkeeping in the Third Millennium B.C.
10. Surveying and Administrating Fields
11. Bookkeeping on Labor
12. Bookkeeping on Animal Husbandry
13. The Education and Profession of the Scribe
14. The Titles and Professions List
15. The Development of Cuneiform Script
16. The Development of Arithmetic
17. Computer-Assisted Decipherment and Editing of Archaic Texts
List of Figures
Bibliography
Indexes
Subjects



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