Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - Charpin, Dominique 1954-; Todd, Jane Marie 1957- (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010)
Introduction : 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.
Translated from the French. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Keywords: Diplomatics, Cuneiform -- Iraq -- History; Law, Assyro-Babylonian -- Language; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian; Cuneiform writing -- History