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One - Ancient Empires on the Ground

Provincial and Peripheral Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2018

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Bleda S. Düring  and
Tesse D. Stek
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Bleda S. Düring  and
Tesse D. Stek
Bleda S. Düring
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Universiteit Leiden
Tesse D. Stek
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Universiteit Leiden
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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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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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