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.

The Power and the Writing: The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia

History

Visicato, Giuseppe

Ancient Civilizations

CDL Press

transliteration, translation, and commentary on 369 Sargonic texts from ancient Adab
Detail: Visicato and Westenholz have provided an in-depth introduction to the historical issues raised by these texts along with full transliterations, critical apparatus, translations and indexes. Excellent photos accompany the texts in the volume.

CUSAS 11: Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

Westenholz, Aage

Eisenbrauns

These texts add significantly to our understanding of Sargonic history, socio-economics, and lexicography. There is a lengthy discussion of the reconstruction of the Adab calendar and an updated Sargonic sign-list is included.

Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University Collections Part II (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

Maiocchi, Massimo

The Bureaucracy of Suruppak (Abhandlungen Zur Literatur Alt-syrien-palastinas Und Mesopotamiens, 10)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Ugarit-Verlag

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