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Daily Data: The Substitute King

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Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi A brief look at the position of substitute king in ancient Mesopotamia! Not as prestigious a job as it may appear...

For more information, see Bottéro, 1992, 'Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods', chapter 9. (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3684684.html)

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/oriental-institute-publications-office - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

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