Weights and measures as a window on ancient Near Eastern societies / edited by Grégory Chambon and Adelheid Otto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambon, Grégory, editor.

Otto, Adelheid, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient ; Bd. 9.

Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient, 2570-4044 ; Band 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metrology--Middle East--Congresses.

Metrology.

Commerce--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Commerce.

Middle East--Antiquities--Congresses.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

viii, 203 pages : many illustrations (partly color), color maps, color plans ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Gladbeck : PeWe-Verlag, 2023.

Contents:

Preface / Grégory Chambon, Adelheid Otto

New perspectives in the study of weights and measures of the Ancient Near East / Grégory Chambon, Adelheid Otto

Mesopotamian weights, a potential Indus weight and other tools in the Archaeological Museum in Instanbul / Lorenz Rahmstorf

Why do "duck-weights" have the form of a water-bird? Goose-weights and their relation to the goddesses Nanše and Ningal / Adelehid Otto, Grégory Chambon

The weights of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age

Weight units in the texts, typology of the weights and statistical study / Étienne Bordreuil

Weights and their raw material in Bronze Age Mespotamia- a case study from Tall Bazi / Christoph Fink

On some Middle Assyrian metrological points / John Nicholas Postgate

The administration of Early Dynastic Šuruppak-new evidence from dry capacity systems / Sarah Clegg

The materiality of capacity measures in Assyria / Florian Janoscha Kreppner, Fabian Sarga

Capacity measures in context II: New considerations on capacity units and their "standards" in Mesopotamia and Egypt / Tanja Pommerening, Grégory Chambon, Lionel Marti

Metrology in action. Hacksilver and scale weights in Western Asia during the 3rd Millennium BCE / Luca Peyronel

Balance weights from the recent excavations at Ur, 2015-2019 / William B. Hafford, Berthold Einwag, Adelheid Otto.

Notes:

Proceedings of a workshop organized by the METROLOGIA project held in Munich on December 14, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783935012638

3935012632

OCLC:

1406603084

Publisher Number:

9783935012638