1090
Israel, 1011, 1018
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 543, 544
Middle Babylonian Period, 507
Neo-Babylonian Period, 938, 939
Neo-Sumerian Period, 207
Nuzi, 600, 601
Old Assyrian Period, 456
Old Babylonian Period, 396
Ugarit, 729–730
Elephantine, 863–881. See also Egypt
Elopement
Israel, 1009, 1035
Emancipation of slaves. See
Manumission; Slavery, subheading:
termination
Emar and vicinity, 657–691, 756
administration
Emar administration, 659–660
Hittite administration, 660–661
adoption, 662, 672–675
children, 671
citizenship, 663
consanguinity, 668–669
constitutional and administrative law,
658–661
crime and delict, 687–688
daughter’s right of inheritance, 679–680
debt and social justice, 686–687
disinheritance, 671, 678–679
distraint, 686
division of property, 677–678
divorce, 670–671
dowry, 670, 677, 679
ethnicity, 668
evidence, 662–663
family, 668–675
female inheritance, 678–679
inheritance via male status, 680
gender, 663–664
Hittites, relationship to, 658, 659,
660–661
inheritance, 673, 676–682
intestate succession, 676–677
king, 658, 659, 660
land tenure, 675–676
litigation, 660, 661–663
loans, 684–685
local authorities, 659–660
male inheritance, 677–679
marital gift, 669, 678, 680–681
marriage, 668–671
parties to litigation, 661
partnership, 687peculium, 677
personal status, 663–668
pledges, 685–686
polygamy, 668
property, 675–682
remarriage, 671
servitudes, 676
slavery, 664–668, 684
sources of law, 657–658
sovereignty, 658–659
special institutions, 688
suretyship, 687
testate succession, 677
theft, 688
treason, 688
wife’s right of inheritance, 680–682
Embassies. See Diplomacy; Envoys
Embezzlement
Egypt New Kingdom, 291
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 962
Neo-Sumerian Period, 220
Enemies. See also Conquered enemies
aiding and abetting
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 477
harboring of
Egypt Middle Kingdom and
Second Intermediate Period, 282
international relations
first millennium, 1060–1061
second millennium, 768–769
Ensik. See Governors
Enslavement. See Slavery
Entitlements. See also Kudurru
Mesopotamia Middle Babylonian
Period, 486, 491, 505
Envoys, 86. See also Diplomacy;
Messengers
divine ambassadors
Late Bronze Age, 767
first millennium, 1053, 1063
Mesopotamia
Nuzi, 580
Old Assyrian Period, 435, 436,
438
second millennium
Late Bronze Age, 761, 766–767
Middle Bronze Age, 751
Ugarit, 723
Epiklarate
Israel, 1018–1019
Erishum I (ruler of Assur), 434, 436
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