payment upon, 2n, 45, 48–49
Egypt
Demotic Law, 843
Elephantine, 876
Third Intermediate Period, 799
Emar, 670
Hittite Kingdom, 636
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148, 149, 162
Middle Assyrian Period, 536,
538, 542
Neo-Assyrian Period, 896
Neo-Sumerian Period, 203, 204
Nuzi, 593
Old Assyrian Period, 454
Old Babylonian Period, 378, 388
penalty for, 48, 49
Egypt Demotic Law, 837, 843
Emar, 670
Mesopotamia
Neo-Assyrian Period, 896
Neo-Babylonian Period, 935
Old Assyrian Period, 453–454
speech act, 48
Egypt Demotic Law, 837
Emar, 670
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 503–504
Neo-Babylonian Period, 935
Old Babylonian Period, 388
Ugarit, 726
wife’s rights, 48, 49
Alalakh IV, 710
Egypt Middle Kingdom and
Second Intermediate Period, 275
Emar, 670
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 536
Neo-Assyrian Period, 896
Neo-Babylonian Period, 935
Old Assyrian Period, 448, 451,
453
Doctors. See Physicians’ fees
Documentary evidence, 32
authentication of, 32, 33. See also
Authentication
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 373–374
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 268
New Kingdom, 311–313
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 109, 111–112Emar, 662
Hittite Kingdom, 631
Israel, 996
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 495
Neo-Assyrian Period, 891
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923–924
Neo-Sumerian Period, 196
Old Assyrian Period, 445
Old Babylonian Period, 373–374
Ugarit, 723
Documents. See Administrative
documents; Documentary evidence;
Edicts; Letters; Literary sources;
Private legal documents; Scholastic
documents; Treaties
Domestic violence
Egypt New Kingdom, 343
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 559
Door-keeper
Egypt Third Intermediate Period,
791
Dowry, 48, 60–61, 62
Egypt
Demotic Law, 835, 840, 842,
854
Elephantine, 875, 876
New Kingdom, 323, 325
Emar, 670, 677, 679
Hittite Kingdom, 635, 640
Israel, 1008
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 162
Middle Assyrian Period, 542, 543
Middle Babylonian Period, 507
Neo-Assyrian Period, 894, 895
Neo-Babylonian Period, 934, 939,
940–942
Neo-Sumerian Period, 208
Nuzi, 590, 591
Old Assyrian Period, 453
Old Babylonian Period, 395,
397–398
Ugarit, 725, 726
Drowning
death by, as punishment
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 417
in river ordeal, 34. See also River
ordeal
Duties on imports
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 526 1085
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