Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Old Assyrian Laws
The contents of the smaller fragments can be ascertained only in part. No. 4: 11 seems to be the introduction to a law concerning outrage. No. 5 treats of arbitrary proceedings of a shepherd, etc. No. 6, lin. 1 - 7, deals with a female slave, 1. 8 - 13 and 14 - 21 treat of the purchase of a man's wife or daughter who has been given as a pledge, 1. 22 - 27 and 28 - 32 are about horses, oxen, and asses. On the other side of the tablet there are prescriptions concerning theft, unlawful deposits etc.
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