« Agricultural Management, Tax Farming and Banking: Aspects of Entrepreneurial Activity in Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods », in : Pierre Briant, Francis Joannès, éds., La transition entre l’empire achéménide et les royaumes hellénistiques (vers 350-300 av. J.-C.). Actes du colloque au Collège de France (22-23 novembre 2004), Paris, 2006, pp. 137-222. (Persika 9)

In the so-called Mūrās[shin]u archive records of deposit and promissory notes were kept that show the entrepreneurial activities of a high-rank person: Mūrāsu was a rent and tax farmer, and as a contractor for Esagila he ran the temple’s agricultural business. Through these documents the Author recovers the transactions between Mūrāsu and other traders, ascertaining that he frequently deposited funds together with other persons – his own funds, or temple funds administrated by him – and sugge..