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Book/Printed Material Women in the Ancient Near East

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Title

  • Women in the Ancient Near East

Summary

  • Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol's book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

Names

  • Stol, Marten, author
  • Richardson, Helen, translator
  • Richardson, M. E. J. (Mervyn Edwin John), 1943- translator

Created / Published

  • Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.

Headings

  • -  Civilization, Ancient
  • -  Sex role--History
  • -  Women--Iraq--Babylonia
  • -  Iraq--History--To 634

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HQ1137.I72

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016040478

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Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Stol, Marten, Author, and M. E. J Richardson. Women in the Ancient Near East. translateds by Richardson, Helen Boston ; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016040478/.

APA citation style:

Stol, M. & Richardson, M. E. J. (2016) Women in the Ancient Near East. Richardson, H., trans Boston ; Berlin: De Gruyter. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016040478/.

MLA citation style:

Stol, Marten, Author, and M. E. J Richardson. Women in the Ancient Near East. trans by Richardson, Helen Boston ; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016040478/>.