Egypt
Elephantine, 876
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 275
New Kingdom, 326
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 120
Third Intermediate Period, 800
Emar, 668
Israel, 981, 1009–1010
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 160
Middle Assyrian Period, 538
Neo-Assyrian Period, 895
Neo-Babylonian Period, 933
Nuzi, 592, 593
Old Assyrian Period, 451, 452
Old Babylonian Period, 385,
390–391
Ugarit, 726
Poor persons. See also Debt slavery
Israel, 998, 999–1000, 1017, 1021
king’s role to protect, 26
Possession of stolen goods. See
Purchase/possession of stolen goods
Posthumous children
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 538
Prayers containing legal information.
See also Religious writings
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 363
Prebends, 54
Egypt
Demotic Law, 839
Third Intermediate Period, 802
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 163
Neo-Assyrian Period, 898
Neo-Babylonian Period, 946, 949,
957
Neo-Sumerian Period, 187,
205–206, 217
Old Babylonian Period, 411
Precedent, 14, 21
Pregnancy
abortion. See Abortion
miscarriage. See Miscarriage caused
by assault
Premeditated murder
Hittite Kingdom, 644
Israel, 1031Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 414
Presumptions, 32, 35
law codes, 35
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 373
Priestesses, 39
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 116
Emar, 680, 688
Hittite Kingdom, 627
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 534
Middle Babylonian Period,
489–490, 492
Old Assyrian Period, 448, 459
Old Babylonian Period, 52, 424
Priestly codes
Egypt Demotic Law, 822
Israel, 977
Priests. See also Temples
Egypt
Demotic Law, 821, 828, 833,
839, 841
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 268
New Kingdom, 290, 302, 348
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 123
High Priest of Amun at Thebes
Egypt Third Intermediate Period,
778, 779, 780, 784, 785, 787,
790
Israel, 989–990, 999, 1000–1001
as judges. See Judges
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148
Middle Assyrian Period, 530
Old Babylonian Period, 368
prebends. See Prebends
religious associations
Egypt Demotic Law, 854
sale of office of
Egypt Demotic Law, 841
Primogeniture. See Eldest son
Princes
Emar, 660
foreign princes as prisoners of war
first millennium, 1062
Israel, 986
local princes
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 105 1121
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