Cities. See also Local government
assembly. See City Assembly
councils. See Councils
Egypt Third Intermediate Period, 784
Israel, 986
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 489
Old Assyrian Period, 435–436, 438
Citizenship, 36–38
Alalakh IV, 706
Egypt
Demotic Law, 832
Elephantine, 37, 871
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 269
New Kingdom, 316–317
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 112–113
Third Intermediate Period, 795–796
Emar, 663
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 156–157
Middle Babylonian Period, 496–497
Neo-Assyrian Period, 892
Neo-Babylonian Period, 926
Neo-Sumerian Period, 197
Nuzi, 578–580
Old Assyrian Period, 447–448
Old Babylonian Period, 376–377
second millennium treaties (Middle
Bronze Age), 750–751
third millennium treaties, 249
Ugarit, 723
City. See Cities
City Assembly
Emar, 660
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
15, 436, 438, 439, 447
City council. See Councils
City-states
first millennium, 1052
Late Bronze Age, 739
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148
Old Assyrian Period, 435
second millennium (Middle Bronze
Age), 745
third millennium, 241
Civil Law, origins of, 1
Clans. See also Tribes
Ebla, 231
Emar, 675feuds among, 71
treaties with, 763
Class, 35, 38
Alalakh IV, 706–707
Alalakh VII, 698–699
change of status by royal promotion
Ugarit, 724
change of status due to marriage.
See also Slavery, subheading:
marriage of slave to free person
Hittite Kingdom, 634, 635
change of status due to punishment
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 131
Ebla, 230
Egypt
Demotic Law, 832–833
Elephantine, 871
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 270
New Kingdom, 316–317
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 97, 112,
113–115, 131
Third Intermediate Period, 796
inheritance of status
Alalakh IV, 707
Egypt
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 126
Third Intermediate Period, 796
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 146
Israel, 999
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 146, 157
Middle Assyrian Period, 530–531,
533–534
Middle Babylonian Period,
497–499
Neo-Assyrian Period, 892–893
Neo-Babylonian Period, 926–927
Neo-Sumerian Period, 187, 198
Nuzi, 580–583
Old Babylonian Period, 377–379
Ugarit, 724
Clay tablets
legal documents written on, 5, 9, 33
Hittite Kingdom, 641, 753
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 144, 167 1077
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