About the Author

Dominique Charpin is directeur d'etudes, section des Sciences historiques et philologiques, Ecole pratique des hautes etudes at the University of Paris. He is the author of Lire et Ecrire a Babylone, most recently, among several other books. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"Charpin is to be congratulated, for he has furthered considerably our understanding of an important period in Mesopotamian history." - Journal of the American Oriental Society"