عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
UG444 .E64
UG444
.
E64
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Terms of Availability and/or Price
322963 Rls
(Number (ISBN
9004174109
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
48075
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
eng
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
city besieged :
Other Title Information
siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Israel Eph'al.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 211 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill, maps ;
SERIES
Series Title
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
Volume Designation
v. 36
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Two printings were published in 2009; one had only the first 113 pages and was probably an error, and the other had 211 pages, with two additional chapters (4 and 5) which match the tables of contents (p. [x-xi) and bibliography and indexes.
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Text of Note
Ke'ir Netsurah. English
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life.
UNIFORM TITLE
Language (when part of a heading)
English.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Siege warfare -- Middle East.
Sieges -- Middle East.
Military art and science -- Middle East -- History.
جنگ محاصره -- خاورمیانه
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Eph'al, Israel.
