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100 1 0 _aBecker, Audrey
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245 0 0 _aThe Giraffe and the Water Clock
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520 _aDuring 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.
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690 _anon verbal communication
690 _adiplomatic gifts
690 _adiplomatic delegations
786 0 _nMonde(s) | o 5 | 1 | 2014-04-08 | p. 27-42 | 2261-6268
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes1-2014-1-page-27?lang=en
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