A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

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Third Intermediate Period, 794,

796

Emar, 664

Mesopotamia

Neo-Babylonian Period, 924, 928

Old Assyrian Period, 448

Old Babylonian Period, 373

Wood

contracts written on

Hittite Kingdom, 641

theft of

Mesopotamia Nuzi, 613

Word of the lawgiver, 13

Word of the stele/tablet, 13

Workhouse

Alalakh IV, 716

Writing, 12. See also Language

Akkadian. See Akkadian

alphabetic scripts, 3, 5

Aramaic. See Aramaic

clay tablets. See Clay tablets

cuneiform. See Cuneiform writing

Demotic, 819–820, 826

Emar styles on tablets, 658

invention of, 1, 141

relationship to orality, 12

teaching of

Late Bronze Age, 766

Mesopotamia Early Dynastic and

Sargonic Periods, 144–145

Yamkhad. See Alalakh Level VII

Yorghan Tepe. See Nuzi

Zedekiah, King of Israel, 16

Zivilprozeßordnung, 821

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