Final and complete publication of more than 2200 clay sealings (cretulae) with seal impressions found in significative assemblages in the palatial building of the 4th millennium BC at Arslantepe-Malatya, analysed in their contexts from both a functional and artistic point of view in an interdisciplinary perspective. They document a very early system of recording the economic transactions before writing in a centralised society and a political centre of power. The origin of a complex bureaucracy is reconstructed and related to the rise of the State. A DVD with the complete catalogue of the materials is also attached.
Arslantepe - Cretulae: An Early Centralised Administrative System Before Writing / Frangipane, Marcella; Piera, Ferioli; Enrica, Fiandra; Romina, Laurito; Holly, Pittman. - STAMPA. - V, Arslantepe Series:(2007), pp. 1-528.
Arslantepe - Cretulae: An Early Centralised Administrative System Before Writing
FRANGIPANE, Marcella;
2007
Abstract
Final and complete publication of more than 2200 clay sealings (cretulae) with seal impressions found in significative assemblages in the palatial building of the 4th millennium BC at Arslantepe-Malatya, analysed in their contexts from both a functional and artistic point of view in an interdisciplinary perspective. They document a very early system of recording the economic transactions before writing in a centralised society and a political centre of power. The origin of a complex bureaucracy is reconstructed and related to the rise of the State. A DVD with the complete catalogue of the materials is also attached.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
