The motives for the mesarum edict of King Ammiṣaduqa of the old Babylonian period : ethics, ego or economics?

Thesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. === Ammißaduqa, penultimate king of the Ôammurabi dynasty in the Old Babylonian period, reigned from 1646-1626 BCE, and issued a mēšarum edict which Finkelstein described as “a single tablet, inscribed with a most unique text of an...

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Main Author: Gaertner, Lorraine
Other Authors: Cornelius, I.
Language:en_ZA
Published: Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2698