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1. Introduction / M. Jursa

2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions / H.D. Baker

3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives / D. Charpin

4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants / J.G. Dercksen

5. Economic Development in Babylonia from the Late 7th to the Late 4th Century BC: Economic Growth and Economic Crises in Imperial Contexts / M. Jursa

6. Legal Institutions and Agrarian Change in the Roman Empire / D. Kehoe

7. The Papyrological Evidence for Water-Lifting Technology / M. Malouta

8. Plagues and Prices: Locusts / R. Pirngruber

9. On Payment Transactions and Monetisation in the Rural Areas of Late Antique Egypt: the Case Study of Small-Format Documents / S. Tost

10. Social Network Analysis of Cuneiform Archives: a New Approach / C. Waerzeggers

11. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC / R.J. van der Spek

12. Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt / S. von Reden

13. Mediterranean Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: the Impact of Rome / D. Rathbone

14. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: Some Preliminary Conclusions / D. Rathbone

Index.

Economic history > To 500.

Babylonia > Economic conditions.

Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome > Economic conditions > 510-30 B.C.

Egypt > Economic conditions > 332 B.C.-640 A.D.