Travel and the making of north mesopotamian polities

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

Volumn 361, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-31

  Ristvet, Lauren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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