The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW, THE ASSEMBLY, AND THE FIRST LAW CODE Marc Van De Mieroop O ne Ancient Mesopo ...
being in the relationship between two parties engaging in a transaction, a record that surpassed the limits of time, space, and ...
We are uncertain about the relative authority of witnesses and contracts. Hammurabi’s laws repeatedly place witnesses and contra ...
children and in return provided them and their dependents, including babies and the elderly, with rations and other kinds of rem ...
to Ipqu-Nabium, the barber, a letter for information to Sîn-rËmËni, the judge, and a letter of the assembly [puærum] to the hono ...
Their actions seem to have inspired the creation of the instrument for which Hammurabi is so widely praised: the law code. LAW C ...
depict a situation where officials charged excessive fees, appropriated labor, and diverted temple resources to the palace (see ...
goods and the goddess Inanna receiving them. In the early third millennium, the architecture of cities starts showing two new el ...
inscriptions focus on the king as an individual, we should not believe that the king himself always was a powerful man. In a sen ...
University of Copenhagen while Hitler’s troops invaded Poland in the fall of 1939 , and must have observed in horror the German ...
Eastern tradition of group-oriented decision making that may somehow stand behind the remarkable development in Athens” (Fleming ...
Barjamovic, G. 2004 “Civic Institutions and Self-Government in Southern Mesopotamia in the Mid-First Millennium BC.” In Assyria ...
Renger, J. 2002 “Royal Edicts from the Old Babylonian Period–Structural Background.” In Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ADMINISTRATORS AND SCHOLARS: THE FIRST SCRIBES Jon Taylor W e can only really approach scribal ethos obliqu ...
its inventor – surely just one man – would not have realized the full potential of what he had just created, nor had any idea of ...
number of gypsum tablets may be explained as use of readily available material. The few stone tablets are harder to explain. At ...
of the reasons why proto-cuneiform is so difficult for us to understand, despite our being able to read the cuneiform which deve ...
not give us their titles, let alone their names, since this information was redundant. But what does seem clear is that the firs ...
Refining the tool: the first period of canonisation – Uruk III Until recently it was thought that the Uruk IV texts were the fir ...
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