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Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Economies in transition: trade, "money", labour and nomads at the turn of the 1st millennium BC -- 2. Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the Persian Period -- 3. Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state -- 4. Beyond capitalism - conceptualising ancient trade through friction, world historical context and bazaars

Land donations are frequently attested in the written record of ancient Egypt. Used by the king asa means to recompense and honor high dignitaries, civil servants, and temples, they were in no waya royal prerogative. Private individuals also donated land both to temples and royal statues, whichappears to have been a social and economic strategy to strengthen their links with the monarchyand with powerful patrons. In other cases, enough evidence reveals that such donations sought topreserve individual patrimonies from the interference of their owners' kin. Temples figure at thecore of land donations, especially as beneficiaries of the king's largesse and of private endowments;their position as local centers of power and authority and their role as heads of patronage networksexplain why they received so many donations of land during the Third Intermediate Period andunder the Saite rule, when political insecurity and state rebuilding made them privileged tools forthe protection of the patrimonies of the elite.

Land donations are frequently attested in the written record of ancient Egypt. Used by the king asa means to recompense and honor high dignitaries, civil servants, and temples, they were in no waya royal prerogative. Private individuals also donated land both to temples and royal statues, whichappears to have been a social and economic strategy to strengthen their links with the monarchyand with powerful patrons. In other cases, enough evidence reveals that such donations sought topreserve individual patrimonies from the interference of their owners' kin. Temples figure at thecore of land donations, especially as beneficiaries of the king's largesse and of private endowments;their position as local centers of power and authority and their role as heads of patronage networksexplain why they received so many donations of land during the Third Intermediate Period andunder the Saite rule, when political insecurity and state rebuilding made them privileged tools forthe protection of the patrimonies of the elite.

Land donations are frequently attested in the written record of ancient Egypt. Used by the king asa means to recompense and honor high dignitaries, civil servants, and temples, they were in no waya royal prerogative. Private individuals also donated land both to temples and royal statues, whichappears to have been a social and economic strategy to strengthen their links with the monarchyand with powerful patrons. In other cases, enough evidence reveals that such donations sought topreserve individual patrimonies from the interference of their owners' kin. Temples figure at thecore of land donations, especially as beneficiaries of the king's largesse and of private endowments;their position as local centers of power and authority and their role as heads of patronage networksexplain why they received so many donations of land during the Third Intermediate Period andunder the Saite rule, when political insecurity and state rebuilding made them privileged tools forthe protection of the patrimonies of the elite.

Economies in transition : trade, money, labour and nomads at the turn of the 1st millennium BC / Juan Carlos Moreno García -- Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the Persian Period / Damien Agut-Labordère -- Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state / Heather D. Baker -- Beyond capitalism : conceptualising ancient trade through friction, world historical context and bazaars / Peter Fibiger Bang -- Phoenician trade : the first 300 years / Carol Bell -- The contribution of pottery production in reconstructing aspects of local rural economy at the northern frontier of the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Anacleto D'Agostino -- 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 -- Long-distance trade in Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia : the effects of institutional changes / Laetitia Graslin-Thomé -- The empire of trade and the empires of force : Tyre in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods / Caroline Van der Brugge & Kristin Kleber -- Temples and agricultural labour in Egypt, from the late New Kingdom to the Saite Period* / Juan Carlos Moreno García -- North-east Africa and trade at the crossroads of the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea / Robert G. Morkot -- Temples, trade and money in Egypt in the 1st millennium BC / Renate Müller-Wollermann -- From "institutional" to "private" : traders, routes and commerce from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age1 / Susan Sherratt -- Intercultural contacts between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula at the turn of the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE / Gunnar Sperveslage -- Interactions between temple, king and local elites : the han-û land schemes in Babylonia (8th-6th centuries BC) / John P. Nielsen and Caroline Waerzeggers -- Organisation and financing of trade and caravans in the Near East / Jean-Baptiste Yon -- Aegean economies from Bronze Age to Iron Age : some lines of development, 13th-7th centuries BC / Julien Zurbach.