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Ancient Civilizations (JAC) 35/1 (2020)</font></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'></span></div>
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<div style="text-indent:8.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-font-width:102%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">This issue comprises articles that
question common frames of ancient historical material and related modern
scholarship. Marta Pallavidini looks at formulas used in Hittite diplomatic
treaties while Xiaoli Ouyang and Michela Piccin both examine lists as stores of
historical narratives in different ANE sources. The latter two articles derive
from a workshop at the <i>64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale</i> in
Innsbruck 2018, and all three provide useful insights into the potential of
so-called documentary sources beyond the mere “facts.” Peter Herz challenges
the widespread view that the Athenian Empire in the 5th century BC brought
democratic happiness and economic prosperity to all the polities related to
Athens; instead he shows the dark, exploitative side of Athens’ <i>arche</i>.
Finally, Kai Ruffing investigates the use of papyrological evidence in the
history of studies in ancient economies. Interpretation along the
primitivist-modernist schism and recent rise of studies in economic papyri
based on <i>New Institutional Economics</i> mirror the importance of current
research frames for examining ancient sources, and remind of a perpetual
critical review of all historians’ “Standortgebundenheit” as Johann Gustav
Droysen has stated in his <i>Historik</i>.</font></span></div>
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<div><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">Contents of JAC 35/1 (2020)</font></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'></span></div>
<div><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><font size="3"> </font></span></b></div>
<div><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">ARTICLES</font></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'></span></i></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Pallavidini, Marta</span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>:
Shaping Diplomacy through Language: Networks of Metaphors in Hittite Diplomatic
Texts (pp. 1–12)</span></font></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Ouyang, Xiaoli: </span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Managing
the Treasuries of the Gods – Administration of the KÙ.AN in Ur III Umma (pp. 13–32)</span></font></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Piccin, Michela: </span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Assyrian
Treaties: “Patchwork” Texts (pp. 33–70)</span></font></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:
uppercase;mso-ansi-language:DE'>Herz, Peter</span><span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:DE'>: Bilanz eines Imperiums.
Anmerkungen zum athenischen Staat des 5. </span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Jh. v.Chr.
(pp. 71–94)</span></font></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-font-width:98%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Ruffing,
Kai</span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-font-width:98%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>: Papyri and the Economy of the
Greco-Roman World (pp. </span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>95–131)<span style="text-transform:uppercase"></span></span></font></div>
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text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Abstracts</span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>
(pp. <span style="text-transform:uppercase">13</span>3–134)</span></font></div>
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"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></b></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">ABSTRACTS</font></span></i></b></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></b></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Marta PALLAVIDINI </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(FU
Berlin)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>SHAPING
DIPLOMACY THROUGH LANGUAGE: NETWORKS OF METAPHORS IN HITTITE DIPLOMATIC TEXTS </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-font-width:102%;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'>(pp. 1–12)</span></font><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'></span></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">Diplomatic language always follows specific rules in
order to be effective. In the Late Bronze Age, Near Eastern countries developed
a web of intense diplomatic relations that were kept alive by the exchange of
messages, goods, and people. In the exchange of messages language plays a key
role. This contribution analyses how conceptual metaphors in the Hittite
diplomatic texts shaped the diplomatic language and, as a result, the making of
diplomacy itself.</font></span></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></b></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Xiaoli OUXANG<span style="text-transform:uppercase"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(History
Department, Fudan University, Shanghai)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase;mso-font-width:98%;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'>MANAGING THE TREASURIES OF THE GODS – ADMINISTRATION OF THE KÙ.AN IN UR
III UMMA</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> (pp. 13–32)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">The term KÙ.AN is attested in more than a dozen
administrative records from Umma of the Ur III period (c. 2112–2004 BC). An
analysis of those records with respect to the context, the formula, and the
people involved indicates that KÙ.AN may well refer to a treasury where
treasures of a deity were kept in a temple. Such an analysis also sheds new
light upon the function and organization of this kind of treasuries within the
administrative framework of the Umma temples. </font></span></div>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Michela PICCIN </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(North-West
University, SA)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>ASSYRIAN TREATIES: “PATCHWORK”
TEXTS </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>(pp. 33–70)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">The article offers a linguistic and stylistic analysis
of the Neo-Assyrian treaties culled from the SAA II (1988). The analysis
focuses on defining scribal procedures in building up the text, which may then
be conclusively labelled as a “patchwork.” Proceeding through the preamble,
list of witnesses, and content, I explore a range of sampling which
demonstrates the substantially fixed – albeit expandable – structure of the
treaties’ texts. I argue that this evidence shows that the structure of the
treaties’ texts had a great communicative efficacy thanks to its standardized
character, as well as facilitated the scribes’ editorial work. The fixed nature
of these texts was also related to the principles of the legal tradition, which
itself was adapted to the historical and political circumstances of the
Neo-Assyrian period.</font></span></div>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:DE'>P</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:DE'>eter<span style="text-transform:uppercase"> HERZ </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:DE'>(Universität
Regensburg)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:DE'>BILANZ EINES IMPERIUMS. ANMERKUNGEN ZUM ATHENISCHEN STAAT
DES 5. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>JH. V.CHR.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> (pp.
71–94)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">The article aims at correcting some misinterpretations
of modern research with regard to Greek public finances, exemplified in a
case-study of ancient Athens. The finance-system of Greek <i>poleis</i> was
totally different from modern states. While modern states’ revenues are based
on the income-taxation of their respective citizens or on taxes of goods and
service, ancient states managed their expenditures through liturgies given
“voluntarily” by their citizens or incomes from lease of (farm) land. Direct
taxation of citizens (<i>eisphora</i>) was usually a sign of an emergency
situation, for instance, during war-times and thus reflects the then heavy
burden of, and pressure on, the polity. Instead, extraction of tribute (<i>phoros</i>)
was a common means of benefitting from rule over other polities, as did Athens
in the First League.</font></span></div>
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"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3"> </font></span></b></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Kai RUFFING</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>
(University of Kassel)</span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>PAPYRI AND THE ECONOMY OF THE
GRECO-ROMAN WORLD</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">(pp. 95–131)</font></span></div>
<div style="mso-hyphenate:none"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><font size="3">In current research on the economy of the Hellenistic
and Roman worlds it is taken for granted to use papyri as evidence for ancient
economic structures, practices, and mentalities. Nevertheless, the utility of
papyri is all but self-evident, at least as far as research of the 20th century
is concerned. Egypt including its source material was considered a special,
particular case and thought to be entirely useless for writing economic history
of Greece and Rome. This was especially true for primitivist orthodoxy.
Moreover, it was particularly German scholarship that showed some neglect
towards economic history and thus papyri. Against the background of the general
discussion on the character of ancient economy the present paper aims to trace
how and to what extent papyri were and are used as evidence. It starts with the
outbreak of the Bücher-Meyer controversy and tries to pursue the discussion to
the present day.</font></span></div>
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