Book
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Charpin, Dominique, Todd, Jane Marie.
Abstract
This study focuses on writing style, composition of tablets, scribal life, archives, and legal documents such as contracts, property deeds and transfers, treaties, custom receipts, legal codes, and edicts during the Old Babylonian period (though also ranging back to the ca 2000 BC origins of its Amorite Dynasty).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1894–1595 BC
- Coverage Place
- Iraq, eastern Syria
- Notes
- Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-175) and index
- LCCN
- 2009052457
- LCSH
- Diplomatics, Cuneiform--Iraq--History
- Law, Assyro-Babylonian--Language
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
- Cuneiform writing--History