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Sons and descendants : a social history of kin groups and family names in the early neo-Babylonian period, 747-626 B.C. /
Sons and Descendants represents the first comprehensive study of Babylonian family names. Drawing primarily on evidence from legal documents from the early Neo-Babylonian period (747-626 B.C.), the book examines the presence of large, named kin groups at the major Babylonia cities, considering their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 43. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sons and Descendants represents the first comprehensive study of Babylonian family names. Drawing primarily on evidence from legal documents from the early Neo-Babylonian period (747-626 B.C.), the book examines the presence of large, named kin groups at the major Babylonia cities, considering their origins and the important roles their members played as local elites in city governance and temple administration. The period of Neo-Assyrian ascendance over Babylonia marks the first for which there is adequate textual material to allow for a study of these groups, but their continued presence and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004189645 9004189645 1283120070 9781283120074 9786613120076 6613120073 |