Book

Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

University of Chicago PressChicago • 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).
Subjects
Information sources listed in other works
Historical and archival research
Comparative evidence
Dissemination of news and information
Writing
Archives
Real property
Inheritance
Chief executive
Administrative agencies
Taxation and public income
Contracts
Peacemaking
Texts translated into english
culture
Babylonians
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