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"Sons and Descendants" represents the first comprehensive study of Babylonian family names. Drawing primarily on evidence from legal documents from the early Neo-Babylonian period (747-626 B.C.), the book examines the presence of large, named kin groups at the major Babylonia cities, considering their origins and the important roles their members played as local elites in city governance and temple administration. The period of Neo-Assyrian ascendance over Babylonia marks the first for which the

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Author

John Preben Nielsen

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004189638

Category

history

Subjects

History, Science, Civilization

Updated

2026-03-25