Preview	Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
	2013	Index locorum
	2013	Conclusions	Yiftach-Firanko, Uri
	2013	Die Statthalterarchive der Spätantike	Haensch, Rudolf
	2013	Bevölkerungskontrolle, Statuszugang und Archivpraxis im römischen Ägypten	Kruse, Thomas
	2013	Epigraphische Quellen zum Archivwesen in den griechischen Poleis des ausgehenden Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit	Harter-Uibopuu, Kaja
	2013	Introduction: Archives in the Roman Empire	Jakab, Eva
	2013	Reflections on Reconstructing Private and Official Archives	Depauw, Mark
	2013	Copie, malacopie, copie d’ufficio e il problema della titolarità di un archivio nell’Egitto tolemaico	Criscuolo, Lucia
	2013	La ‘presenza’ dei re negli archivi delle poleis ellenistiche	Boffo, Laura
	2013	Aramäische Archive aus achämenidischer Zeit und ihre Funktion	Kottsieper, Ingo
	2013	Archives in Classical Athens: Some Observations	Faraguna, Michele
	2013	The Plaint in Athenian Law and Legal Procedure	Harris, Edward M.
	2013	Attic Building Accounts from Euthynae to Stelae	Epstein, Shimon
	2013	Les archives de la cité de raison. Démocratie athénienne et pratiques documentaires à l’époque classique	Pébarthe, Christophe
	2013	The Limits of Middle Babylonian Archives	Paulus, Susanne
	2013	Family Archives in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period	Jacquet, Antoine
	2013	The Archives of Old Assyrian Traders: their Nature, Functions and Use	Veenhof, Klaas R.
	2013	Zero and Infinity: the Archives in Mesopotamia
	2013	Archives and Archival Documents in Ancient Societies: Introduction	Kehoe, Dennis
	2013	Foreword	Faraguna, Michele

This book, part of a series aiming to investigate the legal systems of ancient societies through a document-based, comparative approach, focuses on the study of archives and archival records and their interplay with the workings of administrative and political systems. The papers are arranged in four sections dealing with the Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, the Persian Tradition and the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Empire. The themes touched upon chronologically span from the early second millennium B.C. to the late Roman Empire and geographically range from Mesopotamia to the Western Mediterranean. The archives considered, public and private, are conspicuous for their variety and reflect diverse archival concepts and traditions but a number of common patterns also emerge in respect to their physical organization, to the classification of texts, the function of record-keeping and the role of seals. We are entitled to speak of a recurring ‘archival behaviour’.

Michele Faraguna is associate professor of Greek history at the University of Trieste. His work has focused on Greek political, administrative, economic, and legal history from the Archaic age to early Hellenism. He is the author of Atene nell’età di Alessandro. Problemi politici, economici, finanziari (1992) in addition to many articles. He edited Dynasthai didaskein. Studi in onore di Filippo Càssola (2006) and Nomos despotes. Law and Legal Procedures in Ancient Greek Society (2007). He is a member of the Editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2013). He is currently working, together with Laura Boffo, on a book on public archives in the Greek cities.