| Heather D. Baker | AOAT 330 | |
| Michael Jursa | Approaching the Babylonian Economy | |
| (eds.) | ISBN 3-934628-79-6 | |
| Proceedings of the START Project Symposium | viii + 448 pp. | |
| Held in Vienna, 1-3 July 2004 | 2005 | |
| Veröffentlichungen zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte Babyloniens | ||
| im 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr. Band 2 | 86,50 EUR |
Various aspects of the economy of Babylonia in the 1. mill. B.C.E. are studied in the 15 contributions presented in this congress volume, among others the archive of Bel-eteri-Shamash by M. Jursa, the history of the Borsippa archives by C. Waerzeggers, the relations of Babylonia and Iran by F. Joannès, agricultural facets of the Murashû archive, and theories of long distance trade in the Neo-Babylonian period by L. Graslin.
| Preface | v | |
| Abbreviations and Conventions | vii | |
| Table of Contents | ix | |
| Heather D. Baker / Michael Jursa | Introduction | 1 |
| Heather D. Baker | The property portfolio of a family of builders from Hellenistic Uruk | 7 |
| Paul-Alain Beaulieu | Eanna's contribution to the construction of the North Palace at Babylon | 45 |
| Paola Corò Capitanio | Business profiles of multi-prebend holders in Seleucid Uruk: | |
| reconsidering the dossier of Lâbâs^i/Anu-zeru-iddin//Ekur-zakir | 75 | |
| Erlend Gehlken | Childhood and youth, work and old age in Babylonia -- a statistical analysis | 89 |
| Laetitia Graslin | Les théories économiques du commerce international et leur usage pour l'étude | |
| des échanges à lonque distance à l'époque néo-babylonienne | 121 | |
| Wouter F.M. Henkelman | Animal sacrifice and 'external' exchange in the Persepolis Fortification Tablets | 137 |
| Bojana Jankovic | Between a rock and a hard place: an aspect of the manpower problem | |
| in the agricultural sector of Eanna | 167 | |
| Francis Joannès | Les relations entre Babylonie et Iran au debut de la période achémenide: quelques remarques | 183 |
| Michael Jursa | Das Archiv von Bel-et,eri-S^amas^ | 197 |
| Karlheinz Kessler | Zu den ökonomischen Verhältnissen von Uruk in neu- und spätbabylonischer Zeit | 269 |
| Kristin Kleber | Von Bierproduzenten und Gefängnisaufsehern: dezentrale Güterverteilung | |
| und Buchhaltung in Eanna | 289 | |
| Matthew Stolper | Farming with the Muras^ûs and others: costs and returns of cereal agriculture | |
| in fifth-century Babylonian texts | 323 | |
| Caroline Waerzeggers | The dispersal history of the Borsippa archives | 343 |
| Cornelia Wunsch | The S^angû-Ninurta archive | 365 |
| Stefan Zawadzki | The building project north of Sippar in the time of Nabonidus | 381 |
| Bibliography | 393 | |
| Indices | 417 | |