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Hardcover The City Besieged: Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East Book

ISBN: 9004174109

ISBN13: 9789004174108

The City Besieged: Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East

(Book #36 in the Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Series)

Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic) sources as well as on the depictions on reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Egyptian temples. The analysis incorporates lexical study and military thinking and focuses...

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