The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

central to the diet; the bulbs of onion (sˇus ˇkillu or sˇamasˇkillum; Allium cepa) and of leek (karasˇum; Allium porrum) were c ...

Oils The staple fat (ˇamnums ) in the Babylonians’ diet was oil from the pressed seeds of the sesame plant (sˇamasˇsˇammu ̄; Ses ...

delicacy (Charpin et al. 2004 : 974 ; Englund 1995 ). The luxurious Yale recipes mainly use unspecified meat (ˇı ̄rums ) but inc ...

Minerals Given the climate, salt (t.a ̄ btum) was an important element in the Babylonians’ diet and was collected from salines, ...

Beer ‘Beer is food’ certainly applies to the many varieties of highly nutritious Babylonian barley beer (sˇikarum). Most of our ...

Lion, B., Michel, C. and Noël, P. 2000 ‘Les crevettes dans la documentation du Proche-Orient Ancient’ Journal of Cuneiform Studi ...

Stol, M. 2003 ‘Öl, Ölbaum. A’ in D.O. Edzard (ed.) Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie10 1/ 2 , 32 – ...

PART III ECONOMIC LIFE  ...

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CHAPTER TWELVE ECONOMY OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA A general outline  Johannes Renger A ncient Mesopotamia’s economy was based on ...

stands in contrast to the views held by many historians of ancient Mesopotamia who without regarding the theoretical implicatio ...

‘embeddedness’, as well as his methodological position that premodern economies should be studied with analytical tools other th ...

eventually resulted in indebtedness and loss of control over their agricultural holdings (Renger 1995 b, 304 – 308 ). This could ...

Individual households of the ruler, members of the royal family, high priests and the highest officials of the realm for their ...

fertility of fields was maintained by a rigid fallow system. The hazards of salinization caused by artificial irrigation were me ...

Mesopotamia. Besides redistributive elements we encounter tributary elements – agricultural land assigned for services rendered ...

utensils made from metal could be obtained from outside by those who could afford them, although it is by no means clear to what ...

The role of money, credit and surplus Silver money played a limited role in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Credit as a mone ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Finley, M.I. 1985 The Ancient Economy. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press. Gelb, I.J. 1979 ‘H ...

–––– 1994 a ‘Landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche, Einwohnerzahlen und Herdengröße’, in: FS Léon de Meyer, 251 – 253. Leuven, Peeters. ...