Silver, money and credit
Subtitle: a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the occasion of his 65th birthday
By: edited by Kristin Kleber and Reinhard Pirngruber
Series: PIHANS. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden -- CXXVIII; Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden -- 128.
Publisher: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789062583393
Subjects: Silver; Civilization; Prehistoric Economics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Toespraak bij het afscheid van Bern van der Spek als hoogleraar Oudheidkunde  -- Jaap-Jan Flinterman; title: "Bert" and the History and Historiography of the Seleucid Empire  -- Amelie Kuhrt; title: Bibliography of Robartus J. van der Spek --; title: Tabula Gratulatoria --; title: Mesopotamia.; title: Early Silver : Thoughts about the Sign KU₃ in the Earliest documents from Uruk  -- Theo J.H. Krispijn; title: Kaspam lašqul "Let me weigh out the silver" : Mesopotamian and Anatolian Weights during the Old Assyrian Colony Period  -- Jan Gerrit Dercksen; title: The Old Babylonian "I Owe You"  -- Marten Stol; title: The Kassite Gold and the Post-Kassite Silver Standards Revisited  -- Kristin Kleber; title: Silver and Other Forms of Elite Wealth in Seventh Century BC Babylonia  -- Michael Jursa; title: The Silver  has gone... : Temple Theft and a Divided Community in Achaemenid Babylonia  -- Caroline Waerzeggers; title: New Additions to the Raḫimesu Archive : Parthian Texts from the British Museum and the World Museum Liverpool  -- Johannes Hackl; title: The Value of Silver : Wages as Guides to the Standard of Living in First Millennium BC Babylonia  -- Reinhard Pirngruber.; title: China and the Persian Empire.; title: 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; title: Your Tally is Full! : On Wooden Credit Records in and after the Achaemenid Empire  -- Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Margaretha L. Folmer; title: Elusive Silver in the Achaemenid Heartland : Thoughts on the Presence and Use of Silver According to the Persepolis Fortification and Treasure Archives  -- Mark Tamerus.; title: The Levant and Greece.; title: Silver in Search of his Father : A Comparative Folkloristic Approach to an Episode of the Song of Silver  -- Willemijn J.I. Waal; title: Mycenae, Rich in Silver  -- Jorrit M. Kelder; title: The Silver Krater of King Phaedimus : A Small Piece of Tyrian History in the Odyssey  -- Caroline von der Brugge; title: "A Bad Penny Always Turns Up" : Silver Coins and Citizenship Ideology in Classical Athens -- Diana E. Kretschmann.