- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-175) and index.
- Access (note)
- 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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- Added Author
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-