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