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
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