Establishing Value : : Weight Measures in Early Mesopotamia / / Vitali Bartash.
This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the means...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1. Approaching the topic
- 2. From burden to talent
- 3. Mina: The cosmopolite
- 4. Shekel: A tiny axe
- 5. The missing link: NINDA2 × ŠE+N
- 6. Reforms and new measures
- 7. Stone weights
- 8. Weighing scales
- 9. Weighmasters and the context of weighing
- 10. Weighed goods
- A retrospect
- Bibliography
- General index: subjects, names, places, authors
- Signs and Sumerian words
- Akkadian words
- Cuneiform texts