Crime and Punishment in Mesopotamia

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Miquel Civil

In this article we publish the text of the lecture given by Miquel Civil on November 15, 2001 in the boardroom of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Barcelona. The event was organized by the Eridu. Catalan Society of Friends of the Ancient Near East.

Keywords
legal codes, criminal law, Ur-namma, Lipit-Eshtar, Mesopotamia, Sumer

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Civil, Miquel. “Crime and Punishment in Mesopotamia”. Historiae, no. 17, pp. 1-8, https://raco.cat/index.php/Historiae/article/view/375795.
References

J. Sanmartín, Códigos legales de tradición babilónica, Madrid 1999; M. Molina, La ley más antigua: textos legales sumerios, Madrid 2000

M. Civil, “The Law Collection of Ur-Namma”, a A. R. George (ed.), Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection. Bethesda 2011, pp. 221-286

M. Civil, “On Mesopotamian Jails and Their Lady Warden”, a M. Cohen / D. C. Snell / D. B. Weisberg (eds.), The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo, Bethesda 1993, p. 73, línies 50-54; 101-107. A. Black (et al.), The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998-2006: §4.28.1 (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgibin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.4*#)

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