MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009052457
003 DLC
005 20110211084100.0
008 091215s2010 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226101583 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aKL75$b.C48 2010
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100 1 $aCharpin, Dominique.
245 10 $aWriting, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia /$cDominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2010.
300 $axiv, 182 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [133]-175) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aDiplomatics, Cuneiform$zIraq$xHistory.
650 0 $aLaw, Assyro-Babylonian$xLanguage.
650 0 $aCivilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
650 0 $aCuneiform writing$xHistory.
700 1 $aTodd, Jane Marie,$d1957-