La Babylonie à l'époque hellénistique et parthe
Clancier, Philippe / Graslin-Thomé, Laetitia
Ancient Mesopotamia became part of the Seleucid Empire in the Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE). The cuneiform writing system, which throughout the ancient Near East had been the main medium for documentation since the fourth millennium BCE, remained in use despite the ongoing process of Hellenization. As a consequence-and unlike what we see happening elsewhere in the Seleucid Empire-a large number of sources bearing on daily life and written by...