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ISBN | 9789607905468 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Bib. Info | 315p.; |
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This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1, consists of five parts. Each explores an independent subject, although all five focus on those who owned and used measuring tools in Bronze Age societies in the Aegean and the Orient. Part I presents the framework of the discussion: it deals with the material and symbolic significance of the balance and with the circulation of goods that required measurement and accounting.