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8.2 Theft and murder are mentioned among the offenses punished

with imprisonment in the edicts of Irikagina, alongside tax offences

(see 1.1.2 above).

8.3 A fragmentary list of persons detained(?) in some cases gives

the reason for detention: stolen barley, a stolen slave, a [stolen(?)]

donkey, a house burnt down, and a murder. The list may be a

prison roster.^219

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ADFU Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka

DP F.M. Alotte de la Fuye, Documents Présargoniques(Paris: E. Leroux, 1908)

ED Early Dynastic

ELTS I.J. Gelb, P. Steinkeller, and R. Whiting, Earliest Land Tenure Systems in

the Ancient Near East: Ancient Kudurrus, OIP 104 (Chicago: Oriental Institute,

1991)

FAOS Freiburger Altorientalische Studien (Wiesbaden/Stuttgart: F. Steiner)

5/1–2 H. Steible, Die altsumerischen Bau- und Weihinschriften, Bd. 1–2 (1982)

9/1–2 H. Steible, Die neusumerischen Bau- und Weihinschriften, Bd. 1–2 (1991)

15/1 G. Selz, Die Altsumerischen Wirtschaftsurkunden der Eremitage zu Leningrad(1989)

15/2 G. Selz, Altsumerische Wirtschaftsurkunden aus amerikanischen Sammlungen, Bd.

1–2 (1993)

19 B. Kienast and K. Volk, Die sumerischen und akkadischen Briefe des III.

Jahrtausends aus der Zeit vor der III.Dynastie von Ur (1995)

MEE Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla: Seminario di Studi Asiatici. Series Maior,

vol. 3 = G. Pettinato, Testi lessicali monolingui della Bibliotheca L. 2769

(Napoli: Istituto Universitario di Napoli, 1981)

MVN Materiali per il Vocabulario Neosumerico (Rome: Multigrafica editrice)

3 D. Owen, The John Frederick Lewis Collection(1975)

9 D. Snell, The E.A.Hoffman Collection and Other American Collections(1979)

OIP Oriental Institute Publications, University of Chicago

14 D. Luckenbill, Inscriptions from Adab(1930)

97 R.D. Biggs, “The Cuneiform Inscriptions.” In D.E. McCown et al.,

Nippur II: The North Temple and Sounding E(1978) 71–95

OS Old Sumerian

PSD The Sumerian Dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia: Babylonian Section of the University Museum, 1984–)

SARI J. Cooper, Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions I: Presargonic Inscriptions

(New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1986)

SRU D.O. Edzard, Sumerische Rechtsurkunden des III.Jahrtausends aus der Zeit vor

der III.Dynastie von Ur. ABAW 67 (München: Bayerische Akademie der

Wissenschaften, 1968)

TSA H. de Genouillac, Tablettes Sumériennes Archaiques(Paris: J. Geuthner, 1909)

(^219) RTC 96 iii 4'–8'; iii 17'–iv 18; v 1–11.
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