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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Charpin, Dominique
Autres auteurs: Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Francés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 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.