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  1. Discussion of Babylonian chronicles and astronomical diaries from the Hellenistic Period.

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  2. The Babylonian Calendar

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  3. Abbreviations

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  4. Babylonian Chronicles and Astronomical Diaries from the Hellenistic period.

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  5. Bibliography

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  6. Table of Contents

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  7. Series Editor’s Foreword

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  8. Edition of the Babylonian and Uruk King Lists from the Hellenistic Period.

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  9. Kings Ruling Babylon 405 BCE–4 CE

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  10. Babylonian Chronicles from the Hellenistic Period (BCHP)

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  11. How to read Akkadian cuneiform script.

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  12. Preface and Acknowledgments

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  13. Edition of the Antiochus Cylinder

    Article • May 2025, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  14. Judah and Babylonia under foreign rule

    Article • June 2024, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  15. Challenge of the Astronomical Diaries from Babylon

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, December 2022, American Oriental Society

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  16. THE SELEUCID STATE AND THE ECONOMY

    Article • August 2020, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  17. Introduction to the Ancient world. Third Edition.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  18. Economy and Society in the Ancient Near East. Chapter in Textbook.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  19. Government

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  20. The third millennium

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  21. Introduction

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  22. Epilogue of Introduction to the Ancient World.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  23. Overview of the history of the first millennium BC in the Near East.

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  24. Religion

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  25. The second millennium

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  26. Book on the history of money and monetary policy from 2000 BC to AD 2000

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  27. R. J. Van der Spek. « Cyrus the Great, Exiles, and Foreign Gods: A Comparison of Assyrian and Persian Policies on Subject Nations »

    Article • Abstracta Iranica, March 2018, OpenEdition

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  28. Debates on the world of Berossus

    Article • Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte / Journal for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law, January 2018, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  29. The Latest on Seleucid Empire Building in the East

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 2018, American Oriental Society

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  30. Review of: Alain Bresson (!), The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy (2016)

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  31. The Land of the Elephant Kings. Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire, written by Kosmin, P.J.

    Article • Mnemosyne, June 2016, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  32. Stratonice

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  33. Seleuceia (1) on Tigris

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  34. Seleucus (3) III Ceraunus, 'Thunderbolt', Seleucid king, c. 243–222 BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  35. Seleucus (4) IV Philopator, 'Father-lover', Seleucid king, c. 218–175 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  36. Antiochus (3) III, 'Megas' ('the Great'), Seleucid king, c. 242–187 BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  37. Laodice (2), Seleucid queen, wife of Antiochus (2) II, 3rd cent. bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  38. Seleucus (2) II Callinicus, 'Gloriously Victorious', Seleucid king, c. 265–225 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  39. Laodice (3), Seleucid queen, consort of Antiochus (3) III, late 3rd cent. BCE

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  40. Seleuceia (2) in Pieria

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  41. Seleucus (1) I Nicator, 'Conqueror', founder of the Seleucid empire, c. 358–281 bce

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  42. Carrhae

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  43. Alexander (10) Balas

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  44. Antiochus (7) VII, 'Sidetes', Seleucid king, c. 159–129 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  45. Antiochus (2) II, 'Theos' ('God'), Seleucid king, 286–246 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  46. Antiochus (6) VI, 'Epiphanes Dionysus', Seleucid king

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  47. Antiochus (4) IV, 'Epiphanes' ('Manifest God'), c. 215–164 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  48. Antiochus (1) I, 'Soter' ('Saviour'), Seleucid king, c. 324–261 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  49. Antiochus (8), 'Hierax', ruler of Seleucid Anatolia, c. 263–226 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  50. Antiochus (5) V, 'Eupator' ('with a good father'), c. 173–162/161 BCE

    Article • December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  51. Seleucids

    Article • July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  52. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC

    Article • August 2014, JSTOR

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  53. A History of Market Performance

    Article • August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  54. Factor Markets in Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia (331 BCE-224 CE)

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, March 2014, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  55. Hangende Tuin van Babylon in Ninevé? - Stephanie Dalley, The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon. An elusive world wonder traced (Oxford University Press; Oxford 2013) 352 p., €33,95 ISBN 9780199662265

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, November 2013, Amsterdam University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  56. Economy, Near East (Hellenistic)

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  57. The ‘Silverization’ of the Economy of the Achaemenid and Seleukid Empires and Early Modern Chin

    Article • June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  58. An Introduction to the Ancient World

    Article • October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  59. Sense and Nonsense in the Statistical Approach of Babylonian Prices

    Article • Bibliotheca Orientalis, December 2003, Peeters Publishers

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  60. Susan Sherwin-White and Amélie Kuhrt: From Samarkhand to Sardis: a new approach to the Seleucid empire, x, 261 pp. London: Duckworth, 1993. £35.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  61. Joachim Oelsner: Materialien zur Gesellschaft und Kultur in hellenisticher Zeit. (Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Ókori Történeti, Assziriológiai és Egyiptológiai Tanszékeinek Kiadványai 40. Assyriologia VII.) 547 pp. Budapest, 1986.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  62. G. F. SEIBT, Griechische Söldner im Achaimenidenreich. Bonn, Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977. 236 p

    Article • Mnemosyne, January 1985, Brill

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  63. The Hellenistic Near East

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  64. Money and Trust is chapter 1 in a volume on monetary history

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  65. Money in Ancient Mesopotamia

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  66. Comparison of the introduction of money in Ancient Greece, the Near East and China.

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek

  67. Conclusion of the book 'Money, Currency and Crisis (2018)

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. dr. Robartus J. van der Spek