Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
2010
KL75 .C48 2010 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
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Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Description
xiv, 182 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Note
Translated from the French.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KL75 .C48 2010
Language
English
ISBN
9780226101583 cloth alkaline paper
0226101584 cloth alkaline paper
0226101584 cloth alkaline paper
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