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

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Main Author: Ephʻal, Israel
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 36.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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300 |a xvii, 211 p. :  |b ill, maps. 
490 1 |a Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;  |v v. 36 
500 |a Two printings were published in 2009; one had only the first 113 pages and was probably an error, and the other had 211 pages, with two additional chapters (4 and 5) which match the tables of contents (p. [x-xi) and bibliography and indexes. 
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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