A collection of more than 800 sayings of detectives of the Golden Age and environs, prefaced by s... more A collection of more than 800 sayings of detectives of the Golden Age and environs, prefaced by some nostalgic remarks about the "old" detective-crime-and-mystery story.
A third annual balanced account of silver coming from Umma (BM 110126) is studied here after the ... more A third annual balanced account of silver coming from Umma (BM 110126) is studied here after the two edited in D’Agostino - Pomponio 2004. This text preceded directly the other two (ŠS 9-IS 1), since is dated by the year name of Šū-Sîn 8. Together with it the article presents another tablet (BM 110144) which has a good deal of entries in common with the “capital” of BM 110126, but it is not a copy, because it seems to limit itself to the record of the entries for the Central Office of Umma, but does not have the section of the expenditures.
The article offers an updated overview of the economy of the Neo-Sumerian period (XXI BC), in the... more The article offers an updated overview of the economy of the Neo-Sumerian period (XXI BC), in the light of the thousand of administrative documents in cuneiform writing dated to this period. Different aspects of the economy (land tenure, work classes, taxes, loans and interest, market) as well as specific productive sectors (agriculture, livestock, fishing, trade market) are discussed.
A collection of more than 800 sayings of detectives of the Golden Age and environs, prefaced by s... more A collection of more than 800 sayings of detectives of the Golden Age and environs, prefaced by some nostalgic remarks about the "old" detective-crime-and-mystery story.
A third annual balanced account of silver coming from Umma (BM 110126) is studied here after the ... more A third annual balanced account of silver coming from Umma (BM 110126) is studied here after the two edited in D’Agostino - Pomponio 2004. This text preceded directly the other two (ŠS 9-IS 1), since is dated by the year name of Šū-Sîn 8. Together with it the article presents another tablet (BM 110144) which has a good deal of entries in common with the “capital” of BM 110126, but it is not a copy, because it seems to limit itself to the record of the entries for the Central Office of Umma, but does not have the section of the expenditures.
The article offers an updated overview of the economy of the Neo-Sumerian period (XXI BC), in the... more The article offers an updated overview of the economy of the Neo-Sumerian period (XXI BC), in the light of the thousand of administrative documents in cuneiform writing dated to this period. Different aspects of the economy (land tenure, work classes, taxes, loans and interest, market) as well as specific productive sectors (agriculture, livestock, fishing, trade market) are discussed.
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edited in D’Agostino - Pomponio 2004. This text preceded directly the other two (ŠS 9-IS 1), since is
dated by the year name of Šū-Sîn 8. Together with it the article presents another tablet (BM 110144)
which has a good deal of entries in common with the “capital” of BM 110126, but it is not a copy,
because it seems to limit itself to the record of the entries for the Central Office of Umma, but does not
have the section of the expenditures.
edited in D’Agostino - Pomponio 2004. This text preceded directly the other two (ŠS 9-IS 1), since is
dated by the year name of Šū-Sîn 8. Together with it the article presents another tablet (BM 110144)
which has a good deal of entries in common with the “capital” of BM 110126, but it is not a copy,
because it seems to limit itself to the record of the entries for the Central Office of Umma, but does not
have the section of the expenditures.