A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
MESOPOTAMIA MIDDLE ASSYRIAN PERIOD Sophie Lafont S L 1.1 Law Codes No code of laws in the modern sense has been disc ...
522 1.3 Documents of practice These documents come primarily from Assur,^3 Tell Billa,^4 and Tell al-Rimah,^5 but al ...
523 the central administration had numerous dignitaries who reported directly to the king: the qèpuwas ma ...
524 more rarely, the temple, lends grain, drawn from the public granaries (bìt ¢a“ìme)^16 or from temple reserves al ...
525 cial nobles as a reward for their services.^21 In this way veritable lati- fundia (up to 40 hectares) ...
526 2.3.2 The state levied duties on imports, employing a tax collector (màkisu) for this purpose. He was charged wi ...
527 Certain persons expressly place themselves under royal protection in exchange for their political loy ...
528 168, 169, 201). It may happen that the summons is ignored, in which case a new summons is sent, perhaps with a t ...
529 ticing magic but one of them retracts his statement. His colleague is thus at the same time an eyewit ...
530 punishment (not her guilt). The existence of priestly jurisdiction in A““ur has been asserted on the basis of th ...
531 free (a““uràiu).^49 But it is hard to see how an ethnic term, “Assyrian,”^50 which would be expected ...
532 crisis is over and replaced with a foreign slave (KAJ 167). Subsequently, her redeemer marries the woman whom he ...
533 selves from their master (Assur 3 no. 5:10–13). It is not known whether this redemption (ip†iru) alwa ...
534 of household.^61 In social status, the màrat a"ìlewould be the “patri- cian (wife)” as opposed to the a““at a"ìl ...
535 of the palace major-domo (rab ekalli) and at sufficient distance to avoid physical contact. Breach of ...
536 share in non-consumables (gold, silver, lead), and biblu, which is the part in consumables (barley, sheep).^67 T ...
537 5.1.4 Remarriage 5.1.4.1 Absence of the husband on business for more than five years could dissolve t ...
538 a wife leaves the marital home in order to take refuge with an Assyrian woman. She is subject to disciplinary me ...
539 5.2.2 Duty of Maintenance Children had to support their indigent widowed mother or step- mother: the ...
540 ana màrùtim erèbu“enter into adoption with PN”; cf. KAJ 2 and 4). The document emphasizes the voluntary characte ...
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