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Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 545
Legislation, 13, 26. See also Law codes
Hittite Laws (HL), 619–624
Israel, 990–991
king as primary source of, 26–27
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 99
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
432, 437, 447
Legislature, 26–27
Alalakh VII, 695
decrees, 27
Egypt
Demotic Law, 826
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 259
New Kingdom, 296
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 99
Hittite king, 27
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 147
Middle Babylonian Period, 488
Neo-Babylonian Period, 915–916
Old Assyrian Period, 27, 432, 437
Old Babylonian Period, 364
Ugarit, 720
Legitimacy, 50–51. See also
Illegitimate children
Letters, 11
Alalakh IV, 704
Canaan, 737
Amarna letters, 738, 757
Taanach letters, 738
Egypt
Elephantine, 864
New Kingdom, 293, 313
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 111
Third Intermediate Period, 783
of kings, 13
Egypt Demotic Law, 823
first millennium, 1048, 1053
Late Bronze Age, 765
Late Bronze Age, 765
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 487
Neo-Assyrian Period, 884
Neo-Babylonian Period, 914
Old Assyrian Period, 432, 434, 437
Old Babylonian Period, 363
Letters to GodsEgypt
Demotic Law, 826
New Kingdom, 294
first millennium, 1048, 1060
Letters to the Dead
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 282
New Kingdom, 294, 326, 350
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 98, 132–133
Third Intermediate Period, 812
Levant. See Anatolia and the Levant
Levirate, 49
Hittite Kingdom, 637
Israel, 989, 1011–1012, 1034
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 538
Levites
judicial role of, 990, 992
status of, 999, 1001
Levitical Commands, 976
Lexical texts, 10–11
Libyan Dynasties, 777, 783. See also
Egypt, subheading: Third Intermediate
Period
Liens
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 550
Life estate. See Usufruct
“Lifting of the Gods”
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 573–575
Lipit-Ishtar. See Law codes, subheading:
Laws of Lipit-Ishtar (LL)
Literary sources, 12. See also
Scholastic documents
Ebla, 227
Egypt
Demotic Law, 825–826
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 255, 257
New Kingdom, 294
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 97–98
Third Intermediate Period, 781
illustrations
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian
Period, 885
Litigation, 31–35
Alalakh IV, 705–706
Alalakh VII, 697–698
Canaan, 740–741
Demotic Law Egypt, 829–832
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