book chapter
Law
Everyday life in Babylonia and Assyria • London • Published In 1965 • Pages: 137-155
By: Saggs, H. W. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a description of Mesopotamian law focusing on the Code of Hammurabi, with comparisons to somewhat earlier Sumerian and later Assyrian legal codes. Specific texts are described and interpreted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Legal norms
- Sanctions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000–1250 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] H. W. F. Saggs. Drawings by Helen Nixon Fairfield
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65002284
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia