Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014 (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)

Bernhard Woytek (ed.).

ISBN 10: 3700181086 / ISBN 13: 9783700181088

Published by Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019

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534 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), charts, maps, plans ; 31 cm. 15 English, 1 French, 2 German contributions. Contents: Foreword / Bernhard Woytek -- Infrastructure and distribution in ancient economies : by way of introduction / Bernhard Woytek -- Greek economies "Mankind's most secure and durable institution" : state, credit, trade and capital accumulation in the Classical-early Hellenistic Aegean / Vincent Gabrielsen -- Silver from Laureion : mining, smelting, and minting / Gerhard Thür, Michele Faraguna -- 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 centures BC) / Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert -- Coins and trade in Hellenistic Asia Minor : the Pamphylian hub / Alain Bresson -- The Roman economy. The role played by the Portus Augusti in flows of commerce between Rome and its Mediterranean ports / Simon Keay -- L'approvisionnement en métaux de l'Occident méditerranéen à la fin de la République et sous le Haut-Empire. Flux, routes, organisation / Claude Domergue, Christian Rico -- The grand scheme of things, modelling coin production and coin distribution in the Roman empire in the first and second centuries AD / Kevin Butcher, Bernhard Woytek -- Evidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolte bronze coins in the ancient world / Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Clive Stannard -- Papyrus documents for the study of an ancient economy : methods and materials from an Egyptian oasis / Roger S. Bagnall -- The transport of goods through the eastern desert of Egypt : the archive of the "camel driver" Nikanor / Thomas Kruse -- Negotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien. Überlegungen zu einer Rekonstruktion ländlicher Handelsnetzwerke / Thomas Corsten -- Large-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish : some organizational aspects / Annalisa Marzano -- Documentary evidence and the Roman stone trade / Ben Russell -- 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 / Robert Rollinger -- Wege durch Parthien : Strassen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenriech / Udo Hartmann -- Some remarks on the patterns of coin production in the Parthian empire / Fabrizio Sinisi -- Sasanian mints : where and why? / Nikolaus Schindel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014 (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse)
• Publisher: Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3700181086
• ISBN 13: 9783700181088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology
  • Numismatics

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Synopsis

This volume presents the proceedings of the international interdisciplinary founding conference of the division "Documenta Antiqua" at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), held in 2014. The research focus of the new division are the source disciplines of ancient history: mainly epigraphy, numismatics and papyrology. The book contains an introductory essay as well as 17 contributions on various aspects of ancient infrastructure and on the flow of money, goods and services in ancient economies: in the classical and Hellenistic Greek world, the Roman Empire and in ancient Iran, from Neo-Assyrian times to the Parthian and Sasanian periods. In a general perspective, there is a special emphasis on numismatic contributions. So far, numismatics hardly played a part in modern research on the ancient infrastructure, although money and financial services are universally acknowledged to be indispensable elements of the infrastructure of modern societies. Hence, in this volume numismatics is fully integrated into research on the circulation of goods and the infrastructure of the ancient world for the very first time. Among the topics covered in these innovative contributions the following may be singled out: the economic implications of the extensive countermarking of Hellenistic silver coinages in Asia Minor; the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete bronze coins; patterns of coin production and coin distribution in the Roman Empire in the principate; structures of minting in ancient Iran in the Arsacid and Sasanian periods.