Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
By: Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Contributors: Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226101583
Subjects: Diplomatics, Cuneiform -- Iraq -- History; Law, Assyro-Babylonian -- Language; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian; Cuneiform writing -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historian's task and sources; title: Reading and writing in Mesopotamia: the business of specialists?; title: Outline for a diplomatics of Mesopotamian documents; title: Old Babylonian law: gesture, speech, and writing; title: The transfer of property deeds and the constitution of family archives; title: The status of the Code of Hammurabi; title: The "restoration" edicts of the Babylonian kings and their application; title: Hammurabi and international law; title: Controlling cross-border traffic; title: A civilization with two faces.