Introduction: Communication and Materiality – Communicative Strategies of Ruling Elites from 3000 BCE through 1500 CE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents 1
3. Introduction: Communication and Materiality – Communicative Strategies of Ruling Elites from 3000 BCE through 1500 CE 3
4. Bibliography 6
5. Spreading the Royal Word: The (Im)Materiality of Communication in Early Mesopotamia 7
6. Linear B Administration: The Communicative Aspects of Written Media and the Organisation of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy 25
7. Materiality and Reality of the Communication of Divine Will in the Sargonid Period 61
8. utā pavastāyā utā carmā grftam āha–Written on Clay and Parchment: Old Persian Writing and Allography in Iranian 73
9. Charters, Pitchforks, and Green Seals 93
10. The Textile Performance of the Written Word: Islamic Robes of Honour (khilaʿ) 113
11. Postscript 129
12. Notes on Contributors 133