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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Charpin, Dominique
Other Authors: Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Diplomatics, Cuneiform > Iraq > History.
Law, Assyro-Babylonian > Language.
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
Cuneiform writing > History.
Diplomatique cunéiforme > Irak > Histoire.
Civilisation assyro-babylonienne.
Écriture cunéiforme > Histoire.
Droit assyro-babylonien > Langage.
HISTORY > Civilization.
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
Cuneiform writing
Diplomatics, Cuneiform
Iraq
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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