Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

by Dominique Charpin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $63.44

  Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. This book focuses on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia.