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Title: Weeks, Months and Years in Old Assyrian Chronology
Author(s): DERCKSEN, Jan Gerrit
Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis
Volume: 68    Issue: 3-4   Date: 2011   
Pages: 233-243
DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.68.3.2136910

Abstract :
This article reviews two recent, seminal books on Old Assyrian Chronology (ca. 2000-1725 BC), and discusses evidence for the term hamuštum, traditionally understood as 'week'.

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