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Servitudes
Egypt
Demotic Law, 839
New Kingdom, 332
Emar, 676
Hittite Kingdom, 650
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 545–546
Old Babylonian Period, 394–395
Settlements
Egypt Demotic Law, 831
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 155
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923
Old Babylonian Period, 375
Sexual offenses, 41. See also Rape
Ebla, 236–237
Egypt
Demotic Law, 854
Third Intermediate Period, 811
Hittite Kingdom, 623, 648–649
Israel, 1028–1029, 1034–1037
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 516
Neo-Babylonian Period, 962
Neo-Sumerian Period, 219–220
Old Babylonian Period, 417–419
against slaves, 41, 43
third millennium treaties, 248
Sharecropping. See Agricultural lease;
Hire, subheading: land rental
Shechem. See Canaan
Shekels
Canaan, 742
Sheshonq I (Egyptian pharaoh), 784
“Shipmaster of Herakleopolis,” 790
Shulgi. See Mesopotamia, subheading:
Neo-Sumerian Period
Siblings. See Brothers; Sisters
Silver
Alalakh IV, 713
Alalakh VII, 700, 701
Israel, 1021
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 549
Middle Babylonian Period, 505
Neo-Babylonian Period, 920, 949,
956, 961
Old Assyrian Period, 459, 461
Old Babylonian Period, 400, 402,
403, 404, 413
Ugarit, 726, 732
Sin of Sargon, 1049Sisters
adoption as sister
Mesopotamia
Neo-Sumerian Period, 205
Nuzi, 595
Old Babylonian Period 390
inheritance of property by
Egypt Demotic Law, 841
Mesopotamia Early Dynastic and
Sargonic Periods, 164, 165
marriage to same husband
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 390
“Six Great Houses.” See also Courts
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 264
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 105
Slander, 77, 81
Canaan, 740
Egypt New Kingdom, 292, 346
Israel, 1040
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 556
Nuzi, 614
Old Babylonian Period, 423–424
Slavery, 40–44, 82
agency function performed by slave
for master, 42
Emar, 666
Neo-Babylonian Period, 931
Alalakh IV, 707–708
breach of contract, as penalty for, 69
Mesopotamia Neo-Sumerian
Period, 199
Canaan, 741
categories
Alalakh VII, 698
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 273
New Kingdom, 319–320
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 118
Third Intermediate Period, 798
Emar, 664
Israel, 1003
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 499
Neo-Assyrian Period, 893
Old Babylonian Period, 380–381
chattel. See Chattel slavery
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