1138
Alalakh IV, 704–705
Alalakh VII, 696, 697
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 268
New Kingdom, 311
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 109, 110
expert witnesses
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 924
forensic witnesses
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 109
hearsay, 33
Hittite Kingdom, 631
Israel, 995–996, 1033
to legal documents, 13, 39
Egypt
Demotic Law, 824, 830, 834
Elephantine, 879
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 109–110
Third Intermediate Period, 806,
807, 808
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 924
Old Babylonian Period, 362
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 492, 494
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923, 924
Neo-Sumerian Period, 194, 195
Nuzi, 573
Old Assyrian Period, 443–445
Old Babylonian Period, 373
oath of, 33. See also Oaths as
evidence
to oracular judgments
Egypt Third Intermediate Period,
794
oral testimony, 33
signatures of
Egypt Third Intermediate Period,
795
slaves as, 33
Egypt New Kingdom, 321
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 924, 930
Old Assyrian Period, 450
Old Babylonian Period, 373
Ugarit, 723
women as. See Women
Wives, 47
adultery by. See Adulterydeserted. See Desertion of spouse
divorce rights. See Divorce and
dissolution of marriage
hierarchy among
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 535, 538
inheritance rights, 57, 60
Egypt
New Kingdom, 323, 324
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 126
Emar, 680–681
Israel, 1019
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 164–165
Middle Assyrian Period, 542, 544
Neo-Babylonian Period, 943–944
Neo-Sumerian Period, 209
Nuzi, 594, 601
Old Babylonian Period, 395
Ugarit, 730–731
of merchants
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 448, 451, 453, 468
multiple. See Polygamy
of prisoners of war
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 537
property rights, 41, 61, 62
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 271
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 119
status of, 47
Ebla, 233
Neo-Assyrian Period, 895
say in marriage of daughter
Hittite Kingdom, 636
Ugarit, 726
term for wife
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 274
Third Intermediate Period, 800
widows. See Widows
Women
contractual rights of, 39
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 157
Middle Assyrian Period, 533
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