Inhaltsangabe: Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history :

Weitere Verfasser:	Baker, Heather D. Jursa, Michael.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Philadelphia ; Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Umfang/Format:	iv, 338 p. : ill., pl. ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:	Economic history > To 500. Babylonia > Economic conditions. Imperium Romanum > 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Imperium Romanum > 510-30 B.C. Egypt > eng > Economic conditions > 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
iDAI.gazetteer:	Imperium Romanum Egypt

Inhaltsangabe:

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.