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Xerxes and Babylonia : the cuneiform evidence
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ISBN: 9789042936706 9042936703 9789042938097 9042938099 9789042938090 Year: 2018 Volume: 277 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes' response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes' policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers.


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The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia
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ISBN: 9781501516399 1501516396 9781501507823 9781501507861 1501507869 1501507826 Year: 2018 Volume: 20 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The history of mid-2nd millennium Babylonia is marked by a dire lack of sources. The Sealand kings who controlled part of it were long known to us only indirectly. A palatial archive published recently now illuminates this elusive polity from the inside. This book explores its political, economic, and religious history, as well as the transmission of its memory. It forms a basis for interpreting future finds of that period in southern Iraq.

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