Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 513
Neo-Babylonian Period, 944, 945,
951, 955
Neo-Sumerian Period, 218
Old Babylonian Period, 408
Ugarit, 732
Multicultural civilizations. See Ethnicity
Municipal officials. See Elders; Local
government; Mayors; Overseers
Murder. See Homicide
Mutilation as punishment, 69, 75
Alalakh IV, 715
Egypt New Kingdom, 290, 344,
345, 346
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 554
Neo-Assyrian Period, 906
Neo-Babylonian Period, 932, 966
Myths, 25n
Ugarit, 725Names of slaves
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 930
Naruqquassociation
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
433, 475–476
Nebuchadnezzar, 494. See also
Mesopotamia, subheading:
Neo-Babylonian Period
Necromancy. See Witchcraft
Negligence
damage to property, 79–80, 82
Hittite Kingdom, 643, 644, 645
homicide
Israel, 1033
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 552
Neo-Sumerian Period, 221
Nuzi, 614
Old Babylonian Period, 410, 415–416
Negotiability
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
466–467
Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–910. See
also Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 911–974. See
also Mesopotamia
Neo-Sumerian Period, 183–226. See
also Mesopotamia
New Kingdom. See Egypt
New trials, 32
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 577Nippur. See Mesopotamia
Niqmepa. See Alalakh Level IV;
Ugarit
Niya, 758
Nobles. See Class; Lords
Nomadic tribes. See also Clans
first millennium, 1052
second millennium (Late Bronze
Age), 759
Nomarchs
Egypt
Demotic Law, 827
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 258
New Kingdom, 300
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 104, 105
Third Intermediate Period, 786–787
Non-premeditated murder
Israel, 1032
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 558
Old Babylonian Period, 415
Notarization
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period, 435
Novation
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 549
Nubian Dynasty, 777, 783, 787, 790.
See also Egypt, subheading: Third
Intermediate Period
Nubians
as police
Egypt New Kingdom, 302
provincial administration
Egypt New Kingdom, 296
Nuha““e, 758
Numbers, Book of. See Hebrew Bible
Nuzi, 565–617
administration, 568–569
adoption, 52, 567, 578, 594–596
appeals, 570, 577
archives, 565
assault and battery, 612
breaking and entering, 613
burglary and aggravated theft, 613
children, 593–594
citizenship, 578–580
classes of society, 580–583
constitutional and administrative law,
568–571
contracts, 605–611
courts, 569–571
crime and delict, 611–614 1115
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