Elephantine, 875
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 274
New Kingdom, 323
Third Intermediate Period, 781,
788, 799
Emar, 668
Israel, 1026
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 161
Middle Assyrian Period, 536, 542
Neo-Assyrian Period, 894
Neo-Babylonian Period, 933–934
Neo-Sumerian Period, 201,
202, 203
Nuzi, 567, 578, 587, 588, 592, 593
Old Assyrian Period, 451, 452, 453
Old Babylonian Period, 385, 386
Ugarit, 725
Matrimonial adoption. See Adoption
Mayors, 28
Alalakh IV, 704
Alalakh VII, 695, 696
Canaan, 739
Egypt
Demotic Law, 828
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 263–264
New Kingdom, 290, 300
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 105
Third Intermediate Period, 790
Emar, 660
Hittite Kingdom, 629
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 522
Middle Babylonian Period, 489
Neo-Assyrian Period, 889
Neo-Babylonian Period, 917
Neo-Sumerian Period, 194
Nuzi, 569, 570
Old Babylonian Period, 366
Ugarit, 721
Mediation
Egypt Demotic Law, 829
Memorandum
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 573
Memphis. See Egypt, subheading: New
Kingdom
Menkheperre, 779
Menstruation
sex during
Israel, 1036Merchants. See also Sales; Trading
ventures
caravans
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 473, 474, 475
“coming back” or redemption by
previous owner
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 463–465
contracts
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 461–476
death of trader, effect on debts and
claims
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 445, 460, 475, 477
debt of
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 465–468
Ebla, 235
Egypt
Old Kingdom and First Intermediate
Period, 129
Third Intermediate Period, 805
gold, forbidden trade in
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
437, 447
house ownership or sale by
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
457, 462–463, 469, 473
joint liability of
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
468
loans taken out by
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
466
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods,
148, 159
Old Assyrian Period, 431, 433, 447,
474–476
treaties, 434, 477–478,
749–750
Middle Assyrian Period, 548
Neo-Sumerian Period, 185
Nuzi, 610–611
Old Assyrian Period, 11
Old Babylonian Period, 403, 412
naruqquassociation
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
475–476
partnerships
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474–475 1107
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