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types of, 68
Egypt Middle Kingdom and
Second Intermediate Period, 279
Ugarit, 731–733
Werkverträge
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 958–959
Conveyances. See Real property,
subheading: transfer
Convicted criminals
as slaves
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 118
Mesopotamia Neo-Sumerian
Period, 199
Copper
Alalakh IV, 713
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian Period, 902
Corporal punishment
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 966
Correspondence. See Letters
Corruption, 29, 76. See also
Embezzlement
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 263
New Kingdom, 290, 343
Israel, 993
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 921
Corvée, 75
Canaan, 739
Egypt
Demotic Law, 829
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 266
New Kingdom, 297
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 118
Third Intermediate Period, 780
exemption decrees
Egypt Old Kingdom, 94–95, 102.
See also Exemption decrees
Israel, 993
local authorities and, 29
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 142, 149
Middle Assyrian Period, 525, 553,
554
Nuzi, 581, 582, 597, 598, 599
Old Babylonian Period, 368–369substitutes, use of
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 369
Councils, 28–29. See also City
Assembly; Elders
acting as courts, 30
Egypt
Middle Kingdom, 29
New Kingdom, 300
king’s council
Hittite Kingdom, 628
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
27, 29
Courthouses, 30
Egypt New Kingdom, 306
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian Period, 890
Courts, 29–31
Alalakh IV, 704–705
Alalakh VII, 696
appeals, 30
Canaan, 739
decision. See also Judgment
Egypt
Demotic Law, 831
Elephantine, 870
Egypt
Demotic Law, 828–829
Elephantine, 869, 870
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 264–266
New Kingdom, 290, 302–307
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 104, 105–108
Third Intermediate Period, 791–792
Hittite Kingdom, 630
Israel, 991–993
local courts, 29
Israel, 987, 992–993
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 919
Old Babylonian Period, 367–368
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 150–151
Middle Assyrian Period, 524
Middle Babylonian Period, 489–490
Neo-Babylonian Period, 918–919
Neo-Sumerian Period, 193
Nuzi, 569–571
Old Assyrian Period, 439–441,
442–443
Old Babylonian Period, 366–368
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