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In this book Reinhard Pirngruber provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. His approach is informed by the theoretical insights of New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well as providing the first exhaustive contextualisation of the price data contained in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. Historical information gleaned from the accounts of both Babylonian scholars and Greek authors shows the impact of imperial politics on prices in form of exogenous shocks affecting supply and demand. Attention is also paid to the amount of money in circulation. Moreover, the use of regression analysis in modelling historical events breaks new ground in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and gives new impetus to the use of modern economic theory. The book explains the theoretical and statistical methods used so that it is accessible to the full range of historians.

Agriculture --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- Babylonia --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Economic conditions. --- History.

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This volume offers new cuneiform sources on the political, religious, juridical, and economic history of southern Babylonia in the nineteenth and early eighteenth centuries B.C.E. Among these texts is a 600-lines long document (no. 1) recording in unusual detail the daily routine followed in the temples of the city of Larsa and thus sheds light on the religious practices of the ancient Babylonians. Using this document as its point of departure, the first part of the book examines those practices - the service of the gods and the performance of the clergy. This document is especially important for the history of ancient religion.

Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Babylonia --- History --- Religion. --- Cuneiform inscriptions [Akkadian ] --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Opschriften in spijkerschrift [Akkadische ] --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Texts --- Sources --- Religion

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This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite period, a project that was initiated by Wilfred H. van Soldt with CUSAS 30 in 2015. In this book, Elena Devecchi provides full transliterations, translations, and extended commentaries of 338 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets from Kassite Babylonia (ca. 1475–1155 BCE). Most of the texts are dated to the reigns of Nazi-Maruttaš and Kadašman-Turgu, but the collection also includes one tablet dating to the reign of Burna-Buriaš II and a few documents from the reigns of Kadašman-Enlil II, Kudur-Enlil, and Šagarakti-Šuriaš, as well as some that are not dated. The tablets published here are largely administrative records dealing with the income, storage, and redistribution of agricultural products and byproducts, animal husbandry, and textile production, while legal documents and letters comprise a smaller portion of the collection. Evidence suggests that these documents originated from an administrative center that interacted closely with the provincial capital Nippur and must have been located in its vicinity. They thus expand significantly our previous knowledge of the Nippur region under Kassite rule, hitherto almost exclusively based on sources that came from Nippur itself, and provide substantial new data for the study of central aspects of society, economy, and administration that traditionally lie at the core of research about Kassite Babylonia.

Sumerian language --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Cuneiform tablets --- Texts --- Cornell University. --- Babylonia --- Antiquities --- Sumerian language - Texts - Catalogs --- Akkadian language - Texts - Catalogs --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian - Catalogs --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian - Catalogs --- Cuneiform tablets - Iraq - Catalogs --- Babylonia - Antiquities - Catalogs --- Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Tablets, Cuneiform --- Clay tablets --- Cuneiform writing --- Cornell University --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer

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In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes' response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes' policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers.

Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Xerxes --- Aḥashṿerosh, --- Ahasuerus, --- Assuerus, --- Serse --- Babylonia --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- History --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Xerxes - I, - King of Persia, - 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C --- Babylonia - History - Sources --- Persia --- cuneiform texts --- ancient history

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"A selection of translations of the hundreds of letters from ancient Mari (Tell Hariri) on the Euphrates River, categorizing them by type of letter, contents, and with commentary on the ways in which the letters provide access into our understanding of ancient Mesopotamian society, in the 2nd millennium B.C.E."--Provided by publisher.

Amorites --- Assyro-Babylonian letters --- Inscriptions --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- Akkadian letters --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- History --- Mari (Extinct city) --- Babylonia --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Hariri, Tall (Syria) --- Khirbat al-Marī (Syria) --- Mari (Ancient city) --- Tall Hariri (Syria) --- Tell Hariri (Syria) --- Syria --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Babilonia --- Mari (miasto dawne). --- historia --- źródła. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Sources --- History. --- Mari (Extinct city). --- Translations into English.