Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE A First Case: The Story of Cain and Abel
- CHAPTER TWO Blood Feud and State Control
- CHAPTER THREE The Development of Places of Refuge in the Bible
- CHAPTER FOUR Pollution and Homicide
- CHAPTER FIVE Typologies of Homicide
- CHAPTER SIX Lex Talionis
- CHAPTER SEVEN Interterritorial Law: The Homicide of a Foreign Citizen
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Cuneiform Sources on Homicide
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Citations
Appendix: Cuneiform Sources on Homicide
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE A First Case: The Story of Cain and Abel
- CHAPTER TWO Blood Feud and State Control
- CHAPTER THREE The Development of Places of Refuge in the Bible
- CHAPTER FOUR Pollution and Homicide
- CHAPTER FIVE Typologies of Homicide
- CHAPTER SIX Lex Talionis
- CHAPTER SEVEN Interterritorial Law: The Homicide of a Foreign Citizen
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Cuneiform Sources on Homicide
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Citations
Summary
The Reform of UruKAgina
Publication: Ukg. 4 ⅻ 13–22 (= Ukg. 5 ⅺ 20–29) = H. Steible and H. Behrens, Die Altsumerischen Bau- und Weihinschriften (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991).
Transliteration and Translation: Piotr Steinkeller, “The Reform of UruKAgina and an Early Sumerian Term for ‘Prison,’” AuOr 9 (1991), 227–233.
Translation: Jerrold S. Cooper, Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions: Pre-Sargonic Inscriptions (AOS Translation Series I; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1986), 73.
Date: circa 2350 b.c.e.
NSG 41
Publication: ITT 2789 = Henri de Genouillac, Inventaire des Tablettes de Tello, volume II/1 (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1910), number 2789.
Transliteration and Translation: NSG 41 = Adam Falkenstein, Die neusumerischen Gerichtsurkunden (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historisch Klasse 40; Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956), 2.67–69; Bernard J. Siegel, “Slavery During the Third Dynasty of Ur,” American Anthropologist 40, issue 1, part 2 (1947), 24–25.
Date: Neo-Sumerian period (twenty-first century b.c.e.)
NSG 202
Publication: TEO 6168 = Henri de Genouillac, Textes économiques d'Oumma de l'époque d'Our (TCL 5; Paris: Librairie Orientaliste/Paul Geuthner, 1922), number 6168.
Transliteration and Translation: NSG 202 = Falkenstein, Die neusumerischen Gerichtsurkunden, number 202, 2.331–333.
Date: Neo-Sumerian period (twenty-first century b.c.e.)
NSG 202 is a Sammeltafel from Umma, recording a number of cases, one of which involves homicide.
NSG 121
Publication: TEO 6165 = de Genouillac, Textes économiques d'Oumma de l'époque d'Our, number 6165.
Transliteration and Translation: NSG 121 = Falkenstein, Die neusumerischen Gerichtsurkunden, number 121, 2.206–208.
Date: Neo-Sumerian period (twenty-first century b.c.e.)
The Nippur Murder Trial
Publication: 2 N-T.54; duplicates: PBS VIII 173, 3N-T.340 + 3N-T.403 + 3N-T.273, 3N-T.426 = Edward Chiera, Legal and Administrative Documents from Nippur (Publications from the Babylonian Section VIII; Philadelphia: University Museum, 1914), number 173.
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