royal edicts, 94–95, 99
sale and transfer documents, 127–129
slavery, 117–118
sources of law, 93–98
special institutions, 132–133
theft and related offenses, 130
transactional witnesses, 110–111
witnesses, 110
Ptolemaic Period, 820. See also this
heading: Demotic Law
administration of government, 827
central administration of
government, 827
citizenship, 832
priestly decrees, 822
royal decrees, 822
Third Intermediate Period, 777–818
administration, 784–791
administrative orders, 780
adoption, 801
adultery, 811
central administration, 788–789
children, 801
citizenship, 795–796
class, 796
constitutional and administrative
law, 783–792
contracts, 804–810
courts, 791–792
crime and delict, 810–813
curses, 813
debt and social justice, 809
divorce, 800
edicts, 778–780
evidence, 794–795
family, 798–801
gender, 796–797
hire, 782, 809–810
homicide, 810–811
inheritance, 803–804
injury, 811
king, 784
land tenure, 802
law code, 778
Letters to the Dead, 812
litigation, 781–782, 792, 793–795
loans, 781, 807–808
local government, 790–791
marriage, 799–801
oath, 795
oracles, 812
parties to litigation, 793
partnership, 810
personal status, 795–798pledge, 808, 809
polygamy, 800
private legal documents, 781–783
property, 801–804
provincial administration, 786–787,
789–790
rape, 811
remarriage, 800
sales, 805–807
scholastic documents, 783
sexual offenses, 811
slavery, 797–798
sources of law, 777–783
special institutions, 812–813
suretyship, 809
theft, 811–812
Ekalte. See Emar and vicinity
Elamites, 361
“Elder of the Portal”
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 261
Elderly
children to care for parents. See
Parent-child relationship
Egypt Elephantine, 873
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 584
Elders, 28
Alalakh IV, 704
Alalakh VII, 695
Ebla, 230
Egypt New Kingdom, 301
Emar, 659, 660
Hittite Kingdom, 630
Israel, 987, 988–989, 992, 1032, 1041
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 148
Neo-Assyrian Period, 889
Neo-Babylonian Period, 919
Old Assyrian Period, 436, 437, 448
Old Babylonian Period, 368
Ugarit, 721
Eldest son
rights and responsibilities of, 57–58
Alalakh IV, 710, 712
Egypt
Demotic Law, 839, 840, 841
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 276, 278
New Kingdom, 333, 335
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 117,
118–119, 125
Emar, 678 1089
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