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Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Title
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia [electronic resource] / Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Author
Charpin, Dominique.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 182 p.)
Uniform Title
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Online)
Alternative Title
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Online)
Subject
  • Diplomatics, Cuneiform > Iraq > History
  • Law, Assyro-Babylonian > Language
  • Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
  • Cuneiform writing > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-175) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction : the historian's task and sources -- Reading and writing in Mesopotamia : the business of specialists? -- Outline for a diplomatics of Mesopotamian documents -- Old Babylonian law : gesture, speech, and writing -- The transfer of property deeds and the constitution of family archives -- The status of the Code of Hammurabi -- The "restoration" edicts of the Babylonian kings and their application -- Hammurabi and international law -- Controlling cross-border traffic -- A civilization with two faces.
LCCN
2009052457
OCLC
ssj0000431529
Author
Charpin, Dominique.
Title
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia [electronic resource] / Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-175) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-
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