Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history : methodology and practice /
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Language: English
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Oxford ; Havertown, PA :
Oxbow Books,
2014.
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Call Number: HC31 .D63 2014
Table of Contents:
- •1. Introduction •2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions •3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives •4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants •5. Economic Development in Babylonia from the Late 7th to the Late 4th Century BC: Economic Growth and Economic Crises in Imperial Contexts •6. Legal Institutions and Agrarian Change in the Roman Empire •7. The PapyrologicaJ Evidence for Water-Lifting Technology •8. Plagues and Prices: Locusts •9. On Payment Transactions and Monetisation in the Rural Region of Late Antique Egypt: the Case Study of Small-Format Documents •10. Social Network Analysis of Cuneiform Archives-a New Approach •Prices in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East •11. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC •12. Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt •13. Mediterranean Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: the Impact of Rome •14. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: Some Preliminary Conclusions