Agency in Ancient Writing

Index

293 Index Abu Salabikh, 166; cuneiform script from, 169–79 Abydos: mortuary contexts, 98, 106–7, 109–10, 110; tomb U-j, 99–106 administrative systems: Mesopotamia, 12, 56–59; Mycenaean Greece, 237–38, 242–44, 250 aesthetic profile, 167; of UD.GAL. NUN, 168–71 afterlife, 13; Egyptian writing and, 95–96 agency theory, 8–9, 232–34 agriculture: in Mesopotamia, 50; in Zhongshan, 221, 223 Ahkal Mo’ Naab, 157 Akkadian, 47, 65 Alksoitās, 241, 247(n7) almanacs, Aztec, 27–29, 29 analogy, innovation by, 88 Andes, khipu use in, 29–31 animal husbandry, 221; Mycenaean Greece, 239, 241, 245–46, 247(n9) Anordnung, 168, 180–81(n3) Anyang, divination records from, 86–87 Appadurai, Arjun, The Social Life of Things, 135–36 Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. archaeology: agency in, 2–5, 9–10, 232–34; of economy, 219–24; individual in, 209–10; text-aided, 15, 218, 226–27 architecture: Maya inscriptions in, 149– 50; Teotihuacán-style, 191–92 Arslantepe, 56, 59 art: Egyptian representational, 98–99; Maya, 140–41, 163(n3) Art and Agency (Gell), 4–5 artifacts, 189; inscribed, 250–51, 254; promiscuous/inalienable, 128–29; Teotihuacán-style, 191–92, 207(n4); texts as, 7, 14–15 atlatl, as central Mexican motif, 191, 196 Attica, drinking vessels, 252–53 Awekseus, 239, 240, 241, 242 Aztecs, divinatory books, 27–29, 29 Babylonia, writing in, 45 ballcourt markers, 196–97 balls: Uruk clay, 60–62, 66, 68(nn19, 20) books: divinatory, 27–29, 29; Maya, 144–47, 147; Mesoamerican, 141–43; Mixtec, 31–33 294 Index Bourdieu, Pierre, on habitus, 235, 247(n4) boustrophedon mirror flip, 91 brain, visual memory center in, 78–79, 181(n6) bronze: plaques, 80–83; tablets, 252; vessels, 16, 213–16, 218, 228–30 Bronze Age, 17, 115; Parading Lions motif, 126–33, 136; seals, 13–14, 116–26, 137(n4) bureaucracy: Mesopotamian, 55–59; Mycenaean, 243–44; state, 250–51; Zhongshan, 215–16, 217 bureaucratic records, Mesopotamia, 47, 53–54 burials, 36, 147; Western Han, 80–83; Zhongzhan, 222–23 Calakmul, 205 cemeteries, Egyptian, 99, 108–9 ceramics, 74; Egyptian mortuary, 104–5, 105; inscriptions on, 252–53; Maya books depicted on, 144–47, 147; with Maya pseudo-glyphs, 147–50; Maya speech depictions on, 151, 153, 153–56; Moche, 38, 39–41 Cheng, King, 218, 219 Chi Jo Nik, 199 China, 46, 74; divination records, 86–87, 91; pictography in, 80–83, 90; sign form replication, 83–85; Warring States period, 16, 210–13, 218–19; writing in, 16, 13, 46, 88–89 Choga Mish, 53, 54, 62, 64; clay balls, 61, 63, 68(n19) Ci, King, 213 Classic period (Maya), 186, 203, 206 clay: balls, 60–62, 66, 68(nn19, 20); seals, 50–52, 54, 56–59; slabs, 62–63; tablets, 7, 47, 68–69(nn21, 22), 233, 235–36, 251 Codex Borgia, 27–28, 28 Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, 28, 29 Codex Nuttall, 31 Codex Selden, 31, 32 codices: Aztec, 27–29, 29; Maya, 141, 141–43, 143, 144–47; Mixtec, 31–33 coinage, Warring States period, 224, 225, 226 commodities, record keeping, 59–60 communities, and Minoan Crete seals, 119–20 competence, literacy, 79–80, 84–85 componential structure, emergence of, 92–93 containers, Mesopotamian clay seals, 51–53, 56–57 context, of Maya inscriptions, 143–44 Copán, rulership, 203–5 corporate bodies, Mycenaean, 244 cosmograms, Aztec, 28, 29 cosmology, Maya, 201–2 costuming, Moche, 36–39 counters, Uruk period, 59–61, 61 craft production, Western Han, 85 Crete, 13–14, 130; Bronze Age seals, 116–17, 118–26, 137(n4); Minoan iconography on, 115–16; Parading Lions motif, 117–18, 126–33, 136 cuneiform, 15, 47, 90, 181(n5); aesthetic profile of, 166, 168–71; scribal habitus of, 171–79 Cuo, King, 219, 224, 227; bronze vessel inscription of, 213–15, 228–30 curse tablets, 253 cylinder seals, 54, 55, 61; Egyptian mortuary, 105–6, 107 dance notation systems, 24–25 Degirmentepe, 53 Déjerine, Jules, visual memory center, 78–79 Delos, 151 dialogue/discourse: first- and second-person, 151, 151–56; third-person, 156–60 divination records, Chinese, 86–87, 91 divinatory books, Aztec, 27–29, 29 Djet, 109 Domain of Images, The (Elkins), 25 door sealings, 55, 57, 58–59 drinking services, Mycenaean Greece, 243–44 dynasties, Maya, 189–200, 207(nn6, 7) Early Classic period (Maya), 186 Early Minoan–Middle Minoan transition (EM-MM), 115–16; Parading Lions motif, 123, 123–25, 125, 126–33, 136; seal...