March 2006 A code of 57 laws including criminal law, family law, inheritance law, albor law including slave rights and agricultural and commercial tariffs Manuscript (MS) in Sumerian on clay, Sumer, ...

The Oldest Laws On a clay tablet in Istanbul a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist has found the enlightened code of Ur-Nammu, who reigned over Sumer and Ur more than 4,000 years ago ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A four-monthly periodical devoted to the scientific study of the Ancient Near East. Articles are in English, French, German and ...

MINOT, N.D. — The oldest known example of written law is the Code of Ur-Nammu, which was set down in Mesopotamia sometime between 2100 and 2050 BCE, about three centuries before the more well-known ...

The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope ...