Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East

Katrien De Graef is Associate Professor of Assyriology and History at Ghent University. She is the author of De la dynastie Simaški au sukkalmaḫat: Les documents fin PE IIB–début PE III du chantier B à Suse and Les archives d'Igibuni: Les documents Ur III du chantier B à Suse. Anne Goddeeris is Post-Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant of Assyriology at Ghent University. She is the author of The Old Babylonian Legal and Administrative Texts in the Hilprecht Collection Jena and Tablets from Kisurra in the Collections of the British Museum.

“This handsomely produced proceedings of the 2013 Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Ghent successfully reflects the main title and theme of the conference, with many of the contributions dealing with legalities and law codes.”—M. J. Geller Review of Biblical Literature

• PrefaceAbbreviationsProgram1. Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen LiteratureNetanel Anor2. Le vol à l’époque paléo-babylonienne: L’application de la loi à travers la jurisprudenceDalila Bendellal-Younsi3. “Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie” or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleep as Order and Noise at Night (“tapage nocturne”) as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern TextsDaniel Bodi4. Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment . . . : Quelques remarques sur l’usage du serment de loyauté (depuis la documentation d’Ur III jusqu’à l’époque néo- assyrienne)Daniel Bonneterre5. Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality?Sophie Démarre-Lafont6. The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo-Assyrian DocumentsAline Distexhe7. Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System?Lena Fijałkowska8. What the “Man of One Mina” Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III PeriodSteven Garfinkle9. How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in theCommunity: Crucial Clues from ArchaeologyMònica Bouso and Anna Gómez-Bach10. A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and PhonologicalPeculiarities of the Language in the Laws of HammurabiRodrigo Hernáiz11. “For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me ReplaceHim One Hundred- Fold”: Fugitives/Runaways in the Neo- Assyrian EmpireKrzysztof Hipp12. Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirationsin Biblical and Cuneiform SourcesSandra Jacobs13. Putting Some Order in Ur III Letter-OrdersDaniele Umberto Lampasona14. Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil DivinationAlex Loktionov and Christoph Schmidhuber15. (Mis)Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn’t Have BeenCompetent, They Didn’t Go to YaleKathleen McCaffrey16. Rétablir l’ordre par la mort dans les textes législatifsdu début du IIe millénaire av. J.-CVirginie Muller17. To Be Guilty at NuziPaola Negri Scafa18. Fremde Götter—eigene Götter: Zu den neuassyrischenGötterbeschreibungenReettakaisa Sofia Salo19. “Not Even Her Own Jewelry”: Marital Property in theMiddle Assyrian LawsJoAnn Scurlock20. Disorder and Its Agents: The Akkadian Epic of AnzûRevisitedDahlia Shehata21. When the Trial Does Not Work: Pathological Elementsin the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian PeriodCristina Simonetti22. The Ashurbanipal Library Project at the British MuseumJon Taylor23. The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation in the Ancient Near EastJoanna Töyräänvuori24. Putting Life in Order: The Architectureof the New Excavations in Kamid el-Loz, LebanonJulia Linke and Elisabeth Wagner-Durand25. Enmity Against Samsu-ditānaElyze ZomerContributors