A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
621 preserved but must have existed, since a label has been found with the words “Third tablet: If a man.” A ...
622 there are cases in which the designation is simply “free man” (HL 93, 96, 121, 132, 191, 194), “unfr ...
623 Nonetheless, it is possible to discern certain clusters of laws that sug- gest organization by subject, ...
624 1.1.10 Noteworthy is the existence of tariffs for wages and for prices of cattle, meat, and agricult ...
625 tion as ruler: “The elders may not address (you); my son should not be approached for personal advantage ...
626 brothers or sisters—if you are his panku, tell him loud and clear: ‘Learn this matter from the table ...
627 Tukulti-Ninurta I, he took the title “king of the universe.”^25 Nonetheless, it is unlikely that this af ...
628 to both Hattusili and Puduhepa, which Edel terms “parallel pairs of letters.”^31 She acted independe ...
629 the Heads; the second, Princes, Lords, and Heads.^36 They contain a considerable number of prohibitions ...
630 ring and sealing of the city gates at night, and it was to him that the discovery of a corpse in the ...
631 L 3.1 Procedure As the Instructions to the Border Commander attest, a prospective litigant mu ...
632 (Hitt. arawa-; Akk. LÚELLUM), and that part of the population for which the Hittite term is not know ...
633 sphere of activity. At the same time, it does not exclude the exis- tence of “real” slaves.^50 To the cl ...
634 for military service or used them as workers in temples and in agri- culture, where they could also ...
635 parents, expressed by the hendiadys “father-mother” (attas annas)— contrary to the supposedly patriarcha ...
636 5.2 Marital and Gender Relations The family is organized on patriarchal lines. The wife does, howeve ...
637 5.5 Levirate marriage, or marriage between the widow of a man who died childless and the deceased’s brot ...
638 control amounts to possession or ownership can only be understood from the circumstances of the case ...
639 6.2.5 Land may be granted free of service. HL 47 shows that exemption from luzzi required a formal act: ...
640 son-in-law, after he had adopted him.^72 Its editor is inclined to regard it as a land-grant documen ...
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