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- Title: Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 174 KB
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Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. By ANDREA SERI. Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East. London: EQUINOX Publishing Limited, 2006. Pp. xvi + 240, maps. $95. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.] This book studies the authorities in the Old Babylonian city: the mayor, the elders, the "members of the city," the assembly. It is the first time since the work of A. Walther in 1917 that an investigation on such a broad scale has been undertaken. Since then, the textual evidence has increased enormously--think only of the Mari texts, not known at that time--and this book is most welcome. The book also has a focus: to study the interaction between the State and local authorities (pp. 28, 184, 191).
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