Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia /
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juri...
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Chicago :
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2010.
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Table des matières:
- 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.