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The Power and the Writing : The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia by Giuseppe Visicato (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCD L Press

ISBN-101883053471

ISBN-139781883053475

eBay Product ID (ePID)1661505

Product Key Features

Number of Pages316 Pages

Publication NamePower and the Writing : the Early Scribes of Mesopotamia

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

SubjectAncient / General, Middle Eastern, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Literacy

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorGiuseppe Visicato

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight24 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal935

SynopsisProfessor 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., 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 ......