Offenses. See Crime and delict
Offenses against the gods, 76, 77, 80
Egypt New Kingdom, 342
Offenses against the king, 76–77. See
also Treason
Emar, 659
Hittite Kingdom, 651
Israel, 984
Ugarit, 734
Offerings to gods
third millennium treaties, 248
Old Assyrian Period. See Mesopotamia
Old Babylonian Period. See Alalakh
Level VII; Mesopotamia
Omens containing legal information
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 363
Oracles, 35
Egypt
Demotic Law, 828, 855
New Kingdom, 307, 332, 347–350
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 133
Third Intermediate Period, 777,
778, 781, 794, 812
first millennium, 1049
Israel, 997
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 554
Oral contracts, 13, 64, 67
Egypt Demotic Law, 843
Mesopotamia
Neo-Sumerian Period, 201–202
Old Assyrian Period, 461
Old Babylonian Period, 399
Oral legal acts, 12
Orchards. See Agriculture
administration; Fields
Ordeal, 34. See also River ordeal
Egypt New Kingdom, 315
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 155
Middle Assyrian Period, 528, 529
Middle Babylonian Period, 489,
495–496
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923, 925
Neo-Sumerian Period, 196–197
Nuzi, 575–576
Old Assyrian Period, 446
Old Babylonian Period, 375–376
substitutes used in, 34
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 375Orders. See Administrative orders;
Edicts; Judgment
Organs of government. See also
Administration of government; specific
titles of officials
Alalakh IV, 704–705
Alalakh VII, 694–696
Egypt
Demotic Law, 826–829
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 258–266
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 145–151
Middle Assyrian Period, 522–524
Middle Babylonian Period,
487–490
Neo-Assyrian Period, 886–889
Neo-Babylonian Period, 915–920
Nuzi, 568–571
Old Assyrian Period, 434–441
Old Babylonian Period, 363–368
Ugarit, 720–722
Osorkon Chronicle, 778, 779, 789
Ostraca
Egypt
Demotic Law, 825, 853
New Kingdom, 8
Israel, 981, 994
Outlaws
second millennium Mesopotamia,
750
“Overseer of the Six Great Houses.”
See Viziers
Overseers
Ebla, 229, 231, 233
Egypt
Elephantine, 868
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 260, 262, 265
New Kingdom, 297, 300
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 103, 108
Emar, 660
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148
Neo-Assyrian Period, 889
Old Assyrian Period, 432Pacified Nubians
class status of
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 115 1117
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