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  3. The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108975322
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975322
Subjects:
Ancient History, Classical Studies
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Book description

Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans).This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely regarded as one of the defining innovations of the ancient world, money itself was never invented. It gained critical weight in the Iron Age (ca. 1200 – 600 BCE) as a social and economic tool, most dominantly in the form of precious metal bullion. This book is the first study to comprehensively engage with the early history of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean, tracing its development in the Levant and the Aegean. Building on a detailed study of precious metal hoards, Elon D. Heymans deploys a wide range of sources, both textual and material, to rethink money's role and origins in the history of the eastern Mediterranean.

Reviews

‘… [a] well-written volume … This work provides scholarship with a praiseworthy example of how interdisciplinary studies that include textual and material studies, and also reaching across the divide between ancient history (classics) and ancient Near Eastern studies, opens up important data sets and conversation partners for new insight.’

Peter Altmann Source: Review of Biblical Literature

'… a dense and extremely successful study that will not only enrich research on the Iron Age Levant coast, but should also provide important impulses for our understanding of pre-modern money.'

Marc Philipp Wahl Source: H-Soz-Kult

‘… a valuable contribution to the study of the development of money in the eastern Mediterranean.’

Brian P. Muhs Source: Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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