The economics of ritual at late old Babylonian Kish

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 312-343

  Yoffee, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84856685347     PISSN: 00224995     EISSN: 15685209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568520981436219     Document Type: Review

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