Legal documents in ancient societies (LDAS) : accounts and bookkeeping in the ancient world

Volume 55,2 presents the contributions of the eighth meeting of the Working Group ?Legal Documents in Ancient Societies?, which was devoted to the topic ?Accounts and Bookkeeping in the Ancient World?. The volume is dedicated to an early and seemingly ubiquitous type of text, which often followed certain classification criteria and which, for the sake of easier clarity, was gladly subjected to a specially developed layout. In addition to the discussions of individual artefacts or artefact groups as well as literary texts, there are considerations of ancient and modern terminology, the choice of writing media used for this purpose, the bodies entrusted with data collection, the purposes pursued with it, the further processing and archiving of the collected data as well as their organisation at the various levels of administration. 0The examples from Emar and early Greece again show that a written version was by no means self-evident. The contributions not only draw attention once again to the high level of knowledge that can be gained from such a comparative approach, but also to the great potential of the always underestimated and only seemingly unattractive format of lists and directories. This undoubtedly applies to the entire field of economic administration, but also to questions of military affairs, demography, and sociology, for whose research this serial material is of importance that should not be underestimated Ancient History Contents 6 Vorwort 10 Ten Years LDAS: Summary of Activities and Results 12 Contributors 14 ANCIENT NEAR EAST 18 Manuel Molina: Who watches the watchers? New evidence on the role of foremen in the Ur III administration 20 Daniel E. Fleming: Writing as Administrative Option: The Diviner of the Gods at Late Bronze Age Emar 43 Melanie Groß: “The total of the crown prince’s revenues” –Record-keeping in the Neo-Assyrian palaces 53 ANCIENT GREECE 68 Julia Lougovaya: Tamiai in Early Greece 70 Véronique Chankowski: Greek Sanctuaries as Administrative Laboratories: Bookkeeping Experience on Delos, from Wood Tablets to Marble Steles 81 Cristina Carusi: The Evolving Format of Building Accounts in Classical Athens 91 David Lewis: Misthos, Apophora, or Something Else? A Fresh Look at SEG XXXV 134 109 GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT 124 Willy Clarysse: Headers for lists and accounts in ancient documents and in modern editions 126 Katelijn Vandorpe and Nick Vaneerdewegh: Surveying the land in Ptolemaic Egypt. The information flow from village to nome level 139 Sandra L. Lippert and Maren Schentuleit: Agreements and accounts. On-going research on economic activities of the templeof Soknopaiou Nesos according to the Demotic Texts 158 Andrea Jördens: Buchführung und Rechnungswesen in der Gutsverwaltung 175 Patrick Sänger: Registrierung und Beurkundung von νόμοι im Grapheion von Tebtynis 193 Nicola Reggiani: Identifying People in Official Reports: The Administrative Practice in Roman Egypt 205 Thomas Kruse: Fiskalische Buchführung in Theadelpheia 241 Uri Yiftach: Kollêma: Cross Referencing in Roman Egypt 256 ROME AND THE EMPIRE 270 Ornella Salati: Format and Features of Military Account-Books: the Case of PSI II 119 recto + ChLA IV 264 272 Éva Jakab: Öffentliche Abrechnungen: Cicero in Kilikien 297 Miklós Könczöla: Accounting and Bookkeeping: The Literary Sources 312 Index of Sources 322 Cuneiform Sources 322 Ancient Authors and Works 324 Legal Texts 325 Linear B Tablets 326 Inscriptions 326 Papyri and Ostraca 327 Other 341