Legal Aspects of Slavery in Babylonia, Assyria and Palestine: A Comparative Study (3000-500 B.C.)Bayard Press, 1932 - 73 pages |
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... parents was common in early Babylonia . A mother who was unable to pay for the nursing would leave her baby with the wet- nurse , who either bought the child or adopted it as her own . In cases where the wetnurse felt a particular ...
... parents was common in early Babylonia . A mother who was unable to pay for the nursing would leave her baby with the wet- nurse , who either bought the child or adopted it as her own . In cases where the wetnurse felt a particular ...
Page 22
... parents for the sold child . ( B ) MINORS Selling of minors into slavery by their own parents was also a common practice . These were sales pure and simple . The parents received a given amount of money , and the son or daughter was ...
... parents for the sold child . ( B ) MINORS Selling of minors into slavery by their own parents was also a common practice . These were sales pure and simple . The parents received a given amount of money , and the son or daughter was ...
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... parents as long as they lived . Only after the death of the adopter did such an adopted slave actually become free : ... ( A - di ) Arish - ti- ( ilu ) Aja um- ma - sha ba - al - ta - at it - ta - na - ash - shi - shi ishtu Erish - ti ...
... parents as long as they lived . Only after the death of the adopter did such an adopted slave actually become free : ... ( A - di ) Arish - ti- ( ilu ) Aja um- ma - sha ba - al - ta - at it - ta - na - ash - shi - shi ishtu Erish - ti ...
Common terms and phrases
20 shekels a-na adopted child Amel-Marduk Ammi-ditana Assyrian Babylonian bennu Biblical brand Cassite period clause Clay Code of Hammurabi Collège de France concubine creditor daughter death debt debt-slave dedicated defaulting debtor Dilbat document dated Dougherty early Babylonia early Israel enslavement Erech father female slave foster free woman free-born freed fugitive slave gold gins Hammurabi Code hand Hebrew Hebrew slave HG vol i-na Ibid Iltani interest Ishtar Ishtar of Erech Johns ADD kaspi Kohler-Peiser Kohler-Ungnad Koschaker BAB loan Lutz male slave master Matulka-The Meissner BAP mistress mother murabi Nabu Neo-Babylonian Neriglissar Nippur non-Hebrew owner Palestine peculium Peiser TJG pledge Poebel BLBD punishment redeem reign of Rim-Sin release Rim-Sin Schorr seized sell Shamash SHBD shekels of silver shirku shirkutu shum-ma Sin-muballit Sippar slave mark slavery Sumerian temple Ubar-Shamash Ungnad unto Warad-bunene wife WZKM