Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
decisions were made in the past on cases similar to one now before him. But, like their Babylonian predecessor, the Hittite Laws ...
his region emphasised the importance of his acting fairly and impartially, not favouring the strong over the weak, being sure to ...
to sort out the many crimes and misdemeanours and disputes that arose in the course of daily life in regional communities, the L ...
obligations to his victim by paying him appropriate compensation. Thus: If anyone injures a person and temporarily incapacitates ...
negligence or malice risks losing his livelihood, which is ultimately to the detriment of Hatti’s land-based economy. Penalties ...
these shipments in the last decades of the empire. Large numbers of livestock including cattle, sheep, horses, mules and asses m ...
high status. A case in point is a king of Ugarit accused of seizing 400 donkeys, worth 4,000 shekels of silver, from a merchant ...
activities and disputes that arose between the common people of the Hittite world–those who laboured on the land, engaged in tra ...
CHAPTER 15 No Sex Please, We’re Hittite T his title should not of course be taken too literally. If it were strictly true, the H ...
The fact that this is the only known occasion when a Hittite king interferes in the customs and domestic practices of one of his ...
reason for the state’s endorsement of it was to ensure that a wife so taken in a second marriage continued to produce offspring ...
That is to say, the woman was considered innocent if she were attacked in circumstances where she was unable to summon assistanc ...
BESTIALITY Notable in the list of such offences were those involving what was regarded as sexual deviancy. Incest and certain ty ...
engaging in sex so soon before the ritual he would jeopardise a beneficial outcome from it.^3 Officials on temple duty had to be ...
For all that our texts tell us about what Hittite soldiers did in the performance of their duties, they say almost nothing about ...
wasn’t some sort of sex initiation ceremony but rather what has been called a‘dream incubation’.^5 So we must, alas,finish on a ...
CHAPTER 16 Women, Marriage and Slavery THE WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE A t the top level of Hittite society, women could and sometimes d ...
had only to kneel before him and you would have killed him or at least frightened him. But as it is you have behaved like women! ...
in these clauses. Understandably, since many marriages were arranged, and in the nature of business contracts between the bride’ ...
dowry, but he gained ownership of it only if she died before him. Thekusatawas an important, indeed perhaps an essential, way of ...
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