Based on twenty years of intensive research Jursa presents a brick-like
investigation and inventory of many economic facets of first millennium
BC Mesopotamia. The study is based on more than 21,500 tablets of which
copies or transliterations are available to the "Vienna Economic History
of Babylonia project" can be assigned to an archive and hence normally
also to a particular place of origin. The bulk of the material comes
from Babylon, Borsippa, Nippur, Sippar and Uruk and bears witness of the
movements of goods and people (chapter 2), the strategies of investment
within local and interregional trade (chapter 3) and agriculture in the
rural landscapes surrounding the cities (chapter 4) according to private
as well as temple archives. Special attention is paid to the development
of silver used as money (chapter 5). --- Highly recommended for CEOs
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