A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
561 Diakonoff, I. “Agrarian Conditions in Middle Assyria.” In Ancient Mesopotamia, Socio- economic Histor ...
562 Koschaker, P. Quellenkritische Untersuchungen zu den “altassyrischen Gesetzen.” MVAG 26/3, Leipzig: J.C. Hinrich ...
563 ——.The Archive of Urad-”erùa and his Family.A Middle Assyrian Household in Government Service. Rome: ...
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MESOPOTAMIA NUZI Carlo Zaccagnini S L 1.1 The Archives of Nuzi Some seven thousand tablets, from both official and i ...
566 1.2 Typology of Documents 1.2.1 Documents from the Palace Archives 1.2.1.1 No codes or law collections have been ...
567 1.2.2.2 The bulk of Nuzi texts consists of private legal documents, belonging to family archives of various dimensions. ...
568 in abbreviated form, “Thus (declares) PN:... (ummaPN).” At times the tablets record a double declaration, issued ...
569 (LÚ.)SUKKAL = Akk. sukkallu), “district commander (?)” (Akk. ¢alßu¢lu),^9 and “mayor” (Akk. ¢azannu).^10 2.1.2.2 Inform ...
570 2.1.3.1 The King As elsewhere in the ancient Near East, the king, in his capacity as judge, functioned at the hi ...
571 Other court officials taking part in investigations and related pro- cedures under the authority of, or in connection w ...
572 3.3 Procedure 3.3.1 We lack direct evidence about formal steps to be taken by one party before bringing a case b ...
573 and/or oral evidence. Written documents recording contracts or agreements formerly concluded between the litigants or t ...
574 “lifting the gods” (na“ûilàni) against his adversary.^24 Scholars have differed in their interpretation of the t ...
575 comes: (a) if the party whom the judges had ordered to “lift the gods” refuses (làmagàru) to do so, he loses the case; ...
576 to undergo the test, by stating: “I will not go to the river ordeal” (ana/ina ¢ur“an làallak), he lost the case. ...
577 of the king” (ni““arri zakàru[in one instance, n. “. qabû]) by one party as a preliminary means of challenging the oppo ...
578 PSTATUS 4.1 Citizenship 4.1.1 The official status of “citizen”—“man/woman/son/daughter/ wife of the cou ...
579 slavery or treated as a slave. We do not know whether this protec- tion was also automatically extended to a citizen’s ...
580 operating within the palace or private spheres of the kingdom of Arraphe. Such, for instance, is the case with p ...
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