Economy and Society of Ancient Mesopotamia

The study of the ancient economy is receiving renewed scholarly interest, but the rich documentation from ancient Mesopotamia is often absent from these discussions. In this volume, six scholars survey the evidence across three millennia of cuneiform archives to present a detailed picture of the economy and society of ancient Mesopotamian communities, from the city-states of the early Third Millennium to the empires of the First Millennium. These archives provide some of the earliest detail...