# Hans J. Nissen 1993: Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

> Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, 1993. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The standard account of the proto-cuneiform numerical…

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# Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, 1993.

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk** Book0

## What it's used for here

The standard account of the proto-cuneiform numerical and metrological systems (sexagesimal, bisexagesimal, ŠE grain-capacity, GAN2 area, time notations) worked out from the arithmetic of the tablets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. English edition of Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung (1990).

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Assigning the numerical signs to sexagesimal, bisexagesimal, grain-capacity, area and time systems makes the totals on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXNZJVPKR/assigning-the-numerical-signs-to-sexagesimal-bisexagesimal)

Evidence

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[The archaic texts show no grammar, no fixed sign order within cases and little or no phonetic coding, and their sign…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXN80K013/the-archaic-texts-show-no-grammar-no-fixed-sign-order-within)

Evidence

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[Nissen, Damerow and Englund publish Archaic Bookkeeping; Englund and Nissen publish the Uruk lexical lists](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQQV68GRW/nissen-damerow-and-englund-publish-archaic-bookkeeping)

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[Hans J. Nissen](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPAS5FZ6R/hans-j-nissen)

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[Peter Damerow](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPB31WC8Y/peter-damerow)

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[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

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Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, & Robert K. Englund (1993). Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East. https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00015371
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