1070
New Kingdom, 291
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 96
Third Intermediate Period, 780
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 143
Neo-Babylonian Period, 912–913
Old Assyrian Period, 432, 437
Old Babylonian Period, 362
Administrators of wills. See
Inheritance; Wills
Adoption, 50–54
Alalakh IV, 711
dissolution, 53
Alalakh IV, 711
Emar, 673–675
Ugarit, 728–729
Egypt, 52
Demotic Law, 839, 842
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 276
New Kingdom, 24, 327–328
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 120
Third Intermediate Period, 801
Emar, 662, 672–675
Hittite Kingdom, 637
inheritance rights and, 51
Israel, 1015
legitimacy, 50–51
manumission and, 52
Emar, 667, 673, 674
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 392
matrimonial, 52–54
Alalakh IV, 711
Mesopotamia
Nuzi, 587, 588, 589, 590
Old Babylonian Period, 392
Ugarit, 728
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 539–541
Middle Babylonian Period, 500, 505
Neo-Assyrian Period, 897
Neo-Babylonian Period, 936–938,
939
Neo-Sumerian Period, 204–205
Nuzi, 52, 567, 578, 594–596
Old Assyrian Period, 455–456
Old Babylonian Period, 381–382,
391–393
by priestess, 52sistership
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 587, 588
speech act, 53
Ugarit, 727–729
Adultery, 47, 49, 75, 77, 80
children born from
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 538
Egypt
Demotic Law, 854
New Kingdom, 305, 343–344
Third Intermediate Period, 811
Hittite Kingdom, 636
Israel, 985, 997, 1010, 1034
killing wife for, 77, 80
Hittite Kingdom, 636
Israel, 1034
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 936, 962
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 524, 527,
528, 535, 553, 555–556
Neo-Babylonian Period, 935, 962
Neo-Sumerian Period, 196, 204,
220
Old Babylonian Period, 366, 375,
388, 417–418
Ugarit, 726
Adverse possession
Egypt Elephantine, 878
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 545
Age. See Age of majority; Gender
and age
Age of majority, 39–40
Egypt
Elephantine, 326
New Kingdom, 326
Israel, 1003
Mesopotamia
Neo-Assyrian Period, 894
Neo-Babylonian Period, 928
Nuzi, 584
Old Babylonian Period, 379
Aged persons. See Elderly
children to care for parents. See
Parent-child relationship
Agency role of slave. See Slavery
Aggravated theft, 81
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 613
Agricultural lease. See also Hire,
subheading: land rental
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