Some reflections on Babylonian exchange during the end of the third millennium BC

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 388-400

  Widell, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

"barter"; "exchange"; "market"; "silver"; "Ur III"

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247670634     PISSN: 00224995     EISSN: 15685209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156852005774342876     Document Type: Review

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