A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

CHRONOLOGICAL CHART

In this History, all dates are B.C.E. unless otherwise stated.

Period Date Egypt Mesopotamia Anatolia &

Levant

Early Bronze 3000

Early Dynastic

Old Kingdom

2500 (2675–2130) Ebla

Sargonic

1st Intermediate Neo-Sumerian

(2130–1980) (2112–2002)

Middle Bronze 2000

Middle Kingdom Old Assyrian [Old Assyrian

(1980–1539) (1950–1840) (1950–1840)]

Old Babylonian

Alalakh VII

Canaan

New Kingdom Middle Babylonian

(1539–1000) Middle Assyrian

Late Bronze 1500 Hittite

Nuzi

(1450–1340)

Alalakh IV

Ugarit

Emar

Iron

1000 3rd Intermediate Neo-Babylonian

(1000–650) (1000–331) Israel

Neo-Assyrian

Demotic (1000–617)

(650 B.C.E.– Persian

30 C.E.) (539–331)

500 Elephantine

Hellenistic

(331–141)

Arsacid

0 (141 B.C.E.–

225 C.E.)

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