Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. Textual Circulation and Performance
5. 2. Emar’s entu Installation 29
6. 3. Contextualizing Tradition 48
7. 4. Texts and Performance 87
8. Textual Circulation and Administrative Praxis
9. 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia 121
10. 6. Ur III Administrative Texts 143
11. 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos 166
12. Textual Circulation and the Mechanics of Production
13. 8. The “Magic” of Adapa 191
14. 9. The Text after the Sacrifice 214
15. 10. Songs of Clay 251
16. 11. Neo-Assyrian Scribes, “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,” and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production 285