Saqqarah. See Egypt, subheading:
Elephantine
Sargonic Period. See Mesopotamia,
subheading: Early Dynastic and
Sargonic Periods
Satraps
Egypt Elephantine, 864, 865, 866–867
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 917
Saul (King of Israel), 982–983, 1027,
1040
Scholastic documents. See also Literary
sources
Egypt
Elephantine, 864
New Kingdom, 293
Third Intermediate Period, 783
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 914
Old Babylonian Period, 363
“Science of lists,” 17, 20
Scribes. See also Writing
chief scribe
Egypt Third Intermediate Period, 791
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian
Period, 887
Egypt
Demotic Law, 828
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 29, 259,
262, 267, 268
New Kingdom, 299, 301, 303,
305–306
Third Intermediate Period, 788,
791, 805
Hittite Kingdom, 641
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148
Middle Assyrian Period, 548
Middle Babylonian Period, 489
Neo-Assyrian Period, 885, 887
Neo-Babylonian Period, 925
Old Assyrian Period, 436, 439
training, 9, 18
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 914
Old Babylonian Period, 10
second millennium, 766
Seals and sealing, 33
Alalakh IV, 703
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 279Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 128
Hittite Kingdom, 642
Israel, 987
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 548
Middle Babylonian Period, 495
Neo-Assyrian Period, 885, 901, 903
Neo-Babylonian Period, 946
Neo-Sumerian Period, 185
Old Assyrian Period, 433, 434, 445
Old Babylonian Period, 362, 374
treaties, 84–85, 1057
Second wife. See Polygamy
Security. See also Pledges; Suretyship
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 265, 280
Mesopotamia
Neo-Assyrian Period, 904–905
Old Assyrian Period, 468–473
release of those held as security for
absentee fugitives
Egypt Middle Kingdom and
Second Intermediate Period, 265
Seduction, 82
Israel, 82, 1035
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 418
Seleucid period. See Mesopotamia,
subheading: Neo-Babylonian Period
Self-defense
Mesopotamia Neo-Sumerian Period,
219
Self-help, 73, 83
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 155
Neo-Sumerian Period, 194
Old Assyrian Period, 439, 443
Old Babylonian Period, 370, 372
third millennium treaties, 248
Semi-free persons
Hittite Kingdom, 633, 634, 635, 637
Serfs, 38
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 273
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 157
Nuzi, 583
Servants
Ebla, 230
Service for the king. See Compulsory
service; Corvée 1127
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