The city besieged : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East /

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Main Author: Ephʻal, Israel.

Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Hebrew

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; 36.
CHANE ; 36.

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Call Number: DS41 .C85 v.36

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life. 
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650 0 |a Sieges  |z Middle East. 
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