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From the Mari archives : an anthology of Old Babylonian letters
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ISBN: 1575068303 9781575068305 Year: 2015 Publisher: Winona Lake (Indiana) Eisenbrauns

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For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization.Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration).Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining.The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.

Greek sacred law : a collection of new documents (NGSL)
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ISBN: 9004139591 9786610859665 1429427833 1280859660 1433706229 9789004139596 9781429427838 9781433706226 Year: 2005 Volume: 152 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume consists of a general introduction to Greek sacred law and a collection of inscriptions from mainland Greece, the colonies, and the islands (except Cos) published since the late 1960's.


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Annual egyptological bibliography
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ISSN: 01659111 Year: 1947


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The coinage of the Phoenician city of Tyre in the Persian period : (5th-4th cent. BCE)
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ISBN: 9789042922020 Year: 2009 Volume: 188 20 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Leuven Peeters Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Departement Oosterse Studies

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Objects of provenance not known
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ISBN: 090041667X 9780900416880 9780900416903 0900416688 0900416696 090041670X 9780900416705 9780900416699 9780900416675 9780900416682 Year: 1998 Volume: 8 Publisher: Warminster: Griffith institute,


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Museum lighting : a guide for conservators and curators
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ISBN: 9781606066379 1606066374 Year: 2020 Publisher: Los Angeles The Getty Conservation Institute

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"This indispensable guide to museum lighting, written by distinguished conservation scientist David Saunders, is the first new volume of its kind in over thirty years"--


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Health and medicine in Ancient Egypt : magic and science
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ISBN: 9781407305004 140730500X Year: 2009 Volume: 1967 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress

Women's letters from Ancient Egypt 300 B.C. - 800 A.D.
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ISBN: 9780472115068 0472115065 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press

Hope and healing : painting in Italy in a time of Plague 1500-1800 : [Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800", held at the Worcester Art Museum, 3 April - 25 September, 2005]

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Contributors: James Clifton Andrew Hopkins Sheila C. Barker


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Sources of Shang history : the oracle-bone inscriptions of Bronze age China.
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ISBN: 0520029690 Year: 1978 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Inscriptions, Chinese. --- Oracle bones --- Inscriptions chinoises --- Os divinatoires --- China --- Chine --- History --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Sources --- S04/0510 --- S15/0303 --- Inscriptions, Chinese --- -#SML: Paul Serruys --- Bone carving --- Divination --- Scapulimancy --- Chinese inscriptions --- China: History--Pre-Han: before 206 B.C. --- China: Language--Oracle bones: general --- -Sources. --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- #SML: Paul Serruys --- China: History--Pre-Han: before 206 B.C --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ

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