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Power and the Writing - Couverture rigide

Visicato, Giuseppe

 
9781883053475: Power and the Writing
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1883053471 ISBN 13 : 9781883053475
Editeur : University Press of Maryland, 2000

Synopsis

Professor Visicato studies all the scribes mentioned in the administrative documents from the Pre-Sargonic through the Sargonic periods, discussing their roles and functions within the institutions in which they worked. This work analyzes the continuity and transformation of the role of the scribe in the 350- to 400-year time span from early ED Ur to the end of the Sargonic period. This study reveals that the earliest scribes were not mere compilers of administrative records. Rather, they were major figures in the management of economic and political power in Mesopotamian society. In reality, the scribe, more than anyone else, seems to have been, from the beginning of the urban revolution, the official who headed administrative organizations and continued in this capacity for centuries in a society undergoing social and economic change.

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Éditeur
University Press of Maryland
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1883053471
ISBN 13 
9781883053475
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
316
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Personne responsable
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