Why Should Someone Who Knows Something Conceal It? : Studies in Mesopotamian Administrative and Epistolary Archives in Honor of David I. Owen on His 70th Birthday
Twenty essays on the history, culture, and literature of Ancient Mesopotamia, the land of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, from ca. 300--400 BC. Essays include analysis of previously unpublished legal and administrative documents, the waging of war, aromatic and date production, newly found royal inscriptions, the treatment of orphans, and more.