TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kleber,Kristin
AU  - Pirngruber,Reinhard
AU  - Spek,R.J.van der
TI  - Silver, money and credit: a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the occasion of his 65th birthday 
T2  - PIHANS. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden,
SN  - 9789062583393
AV  - DS 69.6 .S55 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten
KW  - Silver
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Economics, Prehistoric
KW  - Civilization
KW  - To 634
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 	
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
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