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If a Lion Eats Him..
No full textThis article, starting from the analysis of the expression "if a lion kills/eats him" (i.e., a slave received on pledge), which appears in a limited number of surety contracts in the archive of the famous Balaĝunamḫe of Larsa (1829-1792 BC), gives a brief overview of the threat that lions posed not only to livestock but also to human beings in secondmillennium Mesopotamia. Letters and administrative documents inform us of attacks on animals and, more rarely, even people. By contrast, collections of laws and legal principles seem to deal exclusively with problems arising from lions attacking domestic animals, without any mention of attacks on humans. In the light of this brief investigation, the author concludes that the expression "if a lion kills/eats him" must be considered a unicum, since it is not found in any other real-life or school contract. She assumes that the scribe decided to add this formula to the liability clause of Balaĝunamḫe's surety contracts in order to cover as many scenarios as possible, including the chance of being eaten by a lion, clearly representing an event of force majeure
Navigazione e leggi nella Mesopotamia del II millennio a.C.
No full textAfter a general overview on boats and water transport in southern Mesopotamia and along the Middle Euphrates, this article presents a comparative analysis on the Mesopotamian laws concerning navigation, with a focus on the Code of Hammurapi (composed c. 1750 BC). Ten provisions (§§234-240, 275-277) deal with several aspects of the navigation: the wage for the boatman in charge of boat caulking, the hires of boats and crew, responsibility for the sinking of a boat and in the event of a collision between two boats. Finally, the rental prices indicated in some Old Babylonian boat rental contracts are compared with those prescribed in the Code
Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia, by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman. Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 42. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2021. xvii 1 257 pp., 25 pls. Hardback, $89.95.
No full textReview of the volume: A. Gadotti and A. Kleinerman, Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia, Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 42, University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2021
N. L. Kraus, Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period (= Harvard Semitic Studies 67) (G. Spada)
No full textReview of the volume: N. L. Kraus, Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period, Harvard Semitic Studies 67, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 202
A new Old Babylonian antichretic pledge
No full textThis article publishes for the first time an Old Babylonian tablet belonging to the Collection of the British Museum. It records a silver loan with a slave given as an antichretic pledge, i.e. the debtor pledged his slave to work for the creditor, instead of paying interest on his loan
The expression lugal-(l)a-ni-še3-am3, “it is (the loss/responsibility) of his owner alone” in the Old Babylonian school texts
Full text linkThis short article analyzes the Sumerian expression lugal-(l)a-ni-še3-am3, “it is (the loss/responsibility) of his owner alone”, that occurs only in school documentation of the Old Babylonian period. In particular, this formula is used in two model contracts in order to establish the responsibility of a slave owner for the permanent absence of his slave—given as a pledge, or as a hired worker—whether due to flight, death, or disappearance, and for the temporary loss of service, due to work stoppage or illness
Integrazione al testo UET V 236 (U.7827 I)
Full text linkL'edizione di una tavoletta cuneiforme di periodo paleo-babilonese conservata al British Museum, seppur in stato frammentario, integra un documento proveniente dalla città di Ur, pubblicato in UET V 236, e contribuisce a migliorarne la comprensione e l'interpretazione
Testi economici da Ur di periodo paleo-babilonese
No full textIl volume, che è il risultato del lavoro di ricerca svolto nel corso del dottorato in "Studi Filologici e Letterari sul Vicino Oriente Antico e l'Iran pre-islamico" presso l'Università di Roma "Sapienza", presenta l'edizione di un corpus di tavolette paleo-babilonesi provenienti dall'antica città di Ur e appartenenti alle collezioni del British Museum (Londra) e dell'Iraq Museum (Baghdad)
Sumerian model contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection
No full textThis article presents four fragmentary prisms and one tablet of the Rosen Collection recording Sumerian model contracts. Topics include exchange, rental, and sale of real estate, loans, adoption, marriage, and the rescue of a foundling. Two model court cases and three provisions of the “Laws about Rented Oxen” are also recorded in the presented documents
Walter Ray Bodine: How Mesopotamian Scribes Learned to Write Legal Documents. A Study of the Sumerian Model Contracts in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Lewiston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015. viii, 281 S. XXVII Taf. 15,2 × 22,9 cm ISBN-10: 0-7734-3537-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-3537-7. Preis: $ 179,95
No full textReview of the volume: Walter Ray Bodine, How Mesopotamian Scribes Learned to Write Legal Documents. A Study of the Sumerian Model Contracts in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Lewiston/Lampeter, 2015
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