TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Audrey
TI  - The Giraffe and the Water Clock
PY  - 2014///.
							
N1  - 55
N2  - During Late Antiquity, diplomatic delegations presented gifts as a means of symbolically marking that the time for diplomacy had started. Diplomatic gifts primarily provided the opportunity to play a very subtle and ambiguous game involving the different protagonists present when the delegation was received
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes1-2014-1-page-27?lang=en
ER  -