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Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies

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 Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies

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Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies

Preliminaries

1

Table of Contents

5

Bernhard Woytek

Foreword

7

Bernhard Woytek

Abbreviations used in this volume

9

Bernhard Woytek

Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies: by Way of Introduction

11

Vincent Gabrielsen

GREEK ECONOMIES - “Mankind’s Most Secure and Durable Institution”: State, Credit, Trade and Capital Accumulation in the Classical – Early Hellenistic Aegean

25

Gerhard Thür, Michele Faraguna

Silver from Laureion:Mining, Smelting, and Minting*

45

Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert

Die-Sharing and the Transfer of Dies: Evidence for Orders and Shipments of Large Sums of Money in the Ancient Greek World (5th to 3rd Centuries BC)

59

Alain Bresson

Coins and Trade in Hellenistic Asia Minor: the Pamphylian Hub*

67

Simon Keay

THE ROMAN ECONOMY - The Role Played by the Portus Augusti in Flows of Commerce between Rome and its Mediterranean Ports

147

Claude Domergue, Christian Rico

L’approvisionnement en métaux de l’Occident méditerranéen à la fin de la République et sous le Haut-Empire. Flux, routes, organisation

193

Kevin Butcher, Bernhard Woytek

The Grand Scheme of Things. Modelling Coin Production and Coin Distribution in the Roman Empire in the First and Second Centuries AD

253

Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Clive Stannard

Evidence for the Importation and Monetary Use of Blocks of Foreign and Obsolete Bronze Coins in the Ancient World*

283

Roger S. Bagnall

Papyrus Documents for the Study of an Ancient Economy: Methods and Materials from an Egyptian Oasis

355

Thomas Kruse

The Transport of Goods through the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Archive of the “Camel Driver” Nikanor

369

Thomas Corsten

Negotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien. Überlegungen zu einer Rekonstruktion ländlicher Handelsnetzwerke

381

Annalisa Marzano

Large-Scale Fishing and the Roman Production and Trade in Salted Fish: Some Organizational Aspects*

393

Ben Russell

Documentary Evidence and the Roman Stone Trade

409

Robert Rollinger

ANCIENT IRANIAN ECONOMIES - Between Deportation and Recruitment: Craftsmen and Specialists from the West in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (from Neo-Assyrian Times through Alexander III)

425

Udo Hartmann

Wege durch Parthien – Straßen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenreich

445

Fabrizio Sinisi

Some Remarks on the Patterns of Coin Production in the Parthian Empire

473

Nikolaus Schindel

Sasanian Mints – Where and Why?

497

Contributors to this Volume

519

Indices

521