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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spek, R. J. van der (honouree.), Kleber, Kristin (Editor), Pirngruber, Reinhard (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Language Notes:Text in English; prefatory speech in Dutch.
Published: Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2016.
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.