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mods: Silver, money and credit a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the occasion of his 65th birthday Spek, R. J. van der honouree. Kleber, Kristin editor. Pirngruber, Reinhard editor. text bibliography festschrift ne 2016 monographic eng dut print xxvii, 348 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 27 cm. Silver, Money and Credit gathers a collection of contributions by leading specialists on the role of silver in Ancient Mesopotamia. The volume is a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek, professor emeritus at the VU University Amsterdam. The thematic core area is the documentation concerning silver in cuneiform sources from first millennium BC Babylonia, and how this vast body of primary sources can be employed in order to shed light on aspects of the economy. It thus coincides with the honouree's main area of research. The volume is rounded off by comparative material mainly from other periods in Mesopotamian history, rendering justice to his broad range of interest. The scope of the volume thus extends from the first written records on the use of silver in Uruk to the Neo-Babylonian Empire's apogee in the sixth century BC and further to insights to be gained from comparisons with early modern economies. Toespraak bij het afscheid van Bern van der Spek als hoogleraar Oudheidkunde / Jaap-Jan Flinterman -- "Bert" and the History and Historiography of the Seleucid Empire / Amelie Kuhrt -- Bibliography of Robartus J. van der Spek -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Mesopotamia. Early Silver : Thoughts about the Sign KU₃ in the Earliest documents from Uruk / Theo J.H. Krispijn -- Kaspam lašqul "Let me weigh out the silver" : Mesopotamian and Anatolian Weights during the Old Assyrian Colony Period / Jan Gerrit Dercksen -- The Old Babylonian "I Owe You" / Marten Stol -- The Kassite Gold and the Post-Kassite Silver Standards Revisited / Kristin Kleber -- Silver and Other Forms of Elite Wealth in Seventh Century BC Babylonia / Michael Jursa -- The Silver has gone... : Temple Theft and a Divid…