Infrastructure and distribution in ancient economies
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014
By: Bernhard Woytek (ed.).
Series: Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 506. Band; Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 506. Bd.
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9783700181088
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Congresses; Commerce; History; Economic conditions; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

15 English, 1 French, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Bernhard Woytek; title: Infrastructure and distribution in ancient economies : by way of introduction  -- Bernhard Woytek -- Greek economies; title: "Mankind's most secure and durable institution" : state, credit, trade and capital accumulation in the Classical-early Hellenistic Aegean  -- Vincent Gabrielsen; title: Silver from Laureion : mining, smelting, and minting  -- Gerhard Thür, Michele Faraguna; title: Die-sharing and the transfer of dies : evidence for orders and shipments of large sums of money in the ancient Greek world (5th to 3rd centures BC)  -- Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert; title: Coins and trade in Hellenistic Asia Minor : the Pamphylian hub  -- Alain Bresson -- The Roman economy.; title: The role played by the Portus Augusti in flows of commerce between Rome and its Mediterranean ports  -- Simon Keay; title: L'approvisionnement en métaux de l'Occident méditerranéen à la fin de la République et sous le Haut-Empire. Flux, routes, organisation  -- Claude Domergue, Christian Rico; title: The grand scheme of things, modelling coin production and coin distribution in the Roman empire in the first and second centuries AD  -- Kevin Butcher, Bernhard Woytek; title: Evidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolte bronze coins in the ancient world  -- Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Clive Stannard; title: Papyrus documents for the study of an ancient economy : methods and materials from an Egyptian oasis  -- Roger S. Bagnall; title: The transport of goods through the eastern desert of Egypt : the archive of the "camel driver" Nikanor  -- Thomas Kruse; title: Negotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien. Überlegungen zu einer Rekonstruktion ländlicher Handelsnetzwerke  -- Thomas Corsten; title: Large-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish : some organizational aspects  -- Annalisa Marzano; title: Documentary evidence and the Roman stone trade  -- Ben Russell -- Ancient Iranian economies.; title: Between deportation and recruitment : craftsmen and specialists from the west in ancient Near Eastern empires (from Neo-Assyrian times through Alexander III  -- Robert Rollinger; title: Wege durch Parthien : Strassen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenriech  -- Udo Hartmann; title: Some remarks on the patterns of coin production in the Parthian empire  -- Fabrizio Sinisi; title: Sasanian mints : where and why? -- Nikolaus Schindel.