“Management of Resources and Taxation in an Early Mesopotamian Empire: the Case of the Third Dynasty of Ur”

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Management of Resources and Taxation in an Early Mesopotamian Empire: the Case of the Third Dynasty of Ur”

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The development of economic thinking represents a basic component of the formation of a state and its pivotal administrative structures. It is one of the most important tools to express the political authority of its ruler(s). The majority of the documentation in the ancient Near East come from the end of third Millennium, in the so-called Ur III (or Third Dynasty of Ur) period (2112-2004 BC). The administrative activities of the III Dynasty of Ur are documented by a large number of textual records, especially of economic nature, as result of the primary role which bureaucracy played in the administration of every level of the State. We have, more or less, 100000 known texts from this period but probably other hundreds of thousands are kept in the museums of the world or they have to be excavated yet. More than the 95% of the documentation is of administrative nature and records all the aspects linked with the management and the organization of the Empire: productive units (mills, fields, orchards, etc), account of cattle, labour-force and goods, food assignments to workers, letter-orders and so on. The state collected resources from the provinces and the periphery of the state by means of a widespread system of taxation. The paper is aimed at highlighting the different typologies of taxation during the Ur III period, how the state organized the collecting of these taxes, and how the state used the resources obtained through taxation

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Management of Resources and Taxation in an Early Mesopotamian Empire: the Case of the Third Dynasty of Ur”

Popis výsledku anglicky

The development of economic thinking represents a basic component of the formation of a state and its pivotal administrative structures. It is one of the most important tools to express the political authority of its ruler(s). The majority of the documentation in the ancient Near East come from the end of third Millennium, in the so-called Ur III (or Third Dynasty of Ur) period (2112-2004 BC). The administrative activities of the III Dynasty of Ur are documented by a large number of textual records, especially of economic nature, as result of the primary role which bureaucracy played in the administration of every level of the State. We have, more or less, 100000 known texts from this period but probably other hundreds of thousands are kept in the museums of the world or they have to be excavated yet. More than the 95% of the documentation is of administrative nature and records all the aspects linked with the management and the organization of the Empire: productive units (mills, fields, orchards, etc), account of cattle, labour-force and goods, food assignments to workers, letter-orders and so on. The state collected resources from the provinces and the periphery of the state by means of a widespread system of taxation. The paper is aimed at highlighting the different typologies of taxation during the Ur III period, how the state organized the collecting of these taxes, and how the state used the resources obtained through taxation

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-01897S" target="_blank" >GA18-01897S: Komplexnost hospodářství starověkého Předního východu. Management zdrojů a daňové systémy ve 3. a 2. tis. př. n. l.</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Management of Resources and Taxation (Third – Second Millennium BC)

ISBN

978-80-7308-991-7

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

69-86

Počet stran knihy

471

Název nakladatele

Charles University

Místo vydání

Prague

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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