North mesopotamia in the third millennium BC

The Sumerian World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 462-477

  McMahon, Augusta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203096604-37     Document Type: Chapter

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