The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

for many beneficiaries. The collection of revenues in kind due to palace and temple, and its conversion into silver, had traditi ...

price movements are signs of a food crisis is clear from the explicit evidence for famine in the later years of Samsuiluna, an e ...

provincial sites. The city expanded greatly, and may have reached the dimensions of the later Nebuchadnezzar city walls in the m ...

a while, economic reality found ways around some of these rulings, but their influence on the common types of legal texts was pe ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Armstrong, J.A. and Brandt, M.C. 1994. Ancient dunes at Nippur, 255 – 263 , in: H. Gasche et al. (eds), Cinquante-d ...

–––– 2004 b. Babylonian chronology of the 2 nd half of the 2 nd millennium BC, 61 – 70 , in: Hunger and Pruzsinszky 2004. van So ...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE BABYLONIAN ECONOMY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC  Michael Jursa SOURCES T he first millennium BCis one of th ...

are well attested. Information on the royal establishment has to be culled from sources of other origin. As for the private sect ...

cereal farming always remained the principal agricultural activity; date gardening in the vicinity of urban centres, while still ...

already existed in the Chaldean period, but they are most amply attested in the fifth century thanks to a group of texts, the so ...

were determined on the basis of the original size of the herd, employing simple rules of thumb for the prospective number of lam ...

dependants.^13 The highest echelons within the temple administrations were partly royal officials – for all practical purposes, ...

main point of reference was the temple and its community. This is apparent most clearly in marriage practices – group-specific ‘ ...

Agricultural management and the trade in agricultural staples was probably the most important occupation of Babylonian entrepren ...

Given these background conditions, it is hardly surprising that money and credit transactions of many different kinds make up a ...

of the city gates or in the city centres, are clearly attested in the sources. Their import- ance is also apparent from the fact ...

of Joannès 2002 and Briant 2002. The most important work on the archaeological record is still Adams 1981. 2 On the ecology of M ...

–––– 1987. ‘Free Hired Labor in Babylonia During the Sixth through Fourth Centuries BC’, in M. Powell (ed.), Labor in the Ancien ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE EGIBI FAMILY  Cornelia Wunsch T he records of the Egibi family constitute the largest and most important ...

It is in the second generation that the acquired wealth was translated into assets, prestige and office. Nabû-ah ̆ h ̆ e ̄-iddin ...