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2. Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the
Persian Period Damien Agut-Labordère
3. Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state
Heather D. Baker
4. Beyond capitalism – conceptualising ancient trade through friction, world historical context and bazaars
Peter Fibiger Bang
5. Phoenician trade: the first 300 years
Carol Bell
6. The contribution of pottery production in reconstructing aspects of local rural economy at the northern frontier of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Anacleto D’Agostino
7. Silver circulation and the development of the private economy in the Assyrian Empire (9th–7th centuries BCE):
considerations on private investments, prices and prosperity levels of the imperial élite Salvatore Gaspa
8. Long-distance trade in Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia: the effects of institutional changes Laetitia Graslin-Thomé
9. The empire of trade and the empires of force: Tyre in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods
Caroline van der Brugge & Kristin Kleber
10. Temples and agricultural labour in Egypt, from the Late New Kingdom to the Saite Period
Juan Carlos Moreno García
11. North-east Africa and trade at the crossroads of the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
Robert G. Morkot
12. Temples, trade and money in Egypt in the 1st millennium BC
Renate Müller-Wollermann
13. From “institutional” to “private”: traders, routes and commerce from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age
Susan Sherratt
14. Intercultural contacts between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula at the turn of the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE
Gunnar Sperveslage
15. Interactions between temple, king and local elites: the hanšû land schemes in Babylonia (8th–6th centuries BC)
John P. Nielsen & Caroline Waerzeggers
16. Organisation and financing of trade and caravans in the Near East
Jean-Baptiste Yon
17. Aegean economies from Bronze Age to Iron Age: some lines of development, 13th–7th centuries BC
Julien Zurbach