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Two - Engineering Empire

A Provincial Perspective on the Middle Assyrian Empire

from I - The Transformation of Rural Societies and Landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2018

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Bleda S. Düring
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Bleda S. Düring  and
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Bleda S. Düring
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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes
A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
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Print publication year: 2018

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