Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history : methodology and practice / edited by Heather D. Baker and Michael Jursa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Heather D., editor.

Jursa, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--To 500.

Economic history.

Babylonia--Economic conditions.

Babylonia.

Rome--Economic conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome--Economic conditions--510-30 B.C.

Egypt--Economic conditions--332 B.C.-640 A.D.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market developme

Contents:

1. Introduction / M. Jursa

2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions / H. D. Baker

3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives / D. Charpin

4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants / J. G. Dercksen

5. Economic Development in Babylonia from the Late 7th to the Late 4th Century BC: Economic Growth and Economic Crises in Imperial Contexts / M. Jursa

6. Legal Institutions and Agrarian Change in the Roman Empire / D. Kehoe

7. The Papyrological Evidence for Water-Lifting Technology / M. Malouta

8. Plagues and Prices: Locusts / R. Pirngruber

9. On Payment Transactions and Monetisation in the Rural Areas of Late Antique Egypt: the Case Study of Small-Format Documents / S. Tost

10. Social Network Analysis of Cuneiform Archives: a New Approach / C. Waerzeggers

11. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC / R. J. van der Spek

12. Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt / S. von Reden

13. Mediterranean Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: the Impact of Rome / D. Rathbone

14. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: Some Preliminary Conclusions / D. Rathbone

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782977599

1782977597

9781782977612

1782977619