Silver, money and credit : a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the occasion of his 65th birthday /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| Language Notes: | Text in English; prefatory speech in Dutch. |
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Leiden :
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten,
2016.
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| Series: | Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ;
128. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Divided Community in Achaemenid Babylonia / Caroline Waerzeggers
- New Additions to the Raḫimesu Archive : Parthian Texts from the British Museum and the World Museum Liverpool / Johannes Hackl
- The Value of Silver : Wages as Guides to the Standard of Living in First Millennium BC Babylonia / Reinhard Pirngruber. China and the Persian Empire. Silverization of China during the Ming-Qing Transition (ca. 1550-1700) and the Consequences for Research into the Babylonian Economy / Bas van Leeuwen and Yi Xu
- Your Tally is Full! : On Wooden Credit Records in and after the Achaemenid Empire / Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Margaretha L. Folmer
- Elusive Silver in the Achaemenid Heartland : Thoughts on the Presence and Use of Silver According to the Persepolis Fortification and Treasure Archives / Mark Tamerus. The Levant and Greece. Silver in Search of his Father : A Comparative Folkloristic Approach to an Episode of the Song of Silver / Willemijn J.I. Waal
- Mycenae, Rich in Silver / Jorrit M. Kelder
- The Silver Krater of King Phaedimus : A Small Piece of Tyrian History in the Odyssey / Caroline von der Brugge
- "A Bad Penny Always Turns Up" : Silver Coins and Citizenship Ideology in Classical Athens / Diana E. Kretschmann.