This article presents four fragmentary prisms and one tablet of the Rosen Collection recording Sumerian model contracts. Topics include exchange, rental, and sale of real estate, loans, adoption, marriage, and the rescue of a foundling. Two model court cases and three provisions of the “Laws about Rented Oxen” are also recorded in the presented documents.

Sumerian model contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection / Spada, Gabriella. - In: REVUE D'ASSYRIOLOGIE ET D'ARCHÉOLOGIE ORIENTALE. - ISSN 0373-6032. - Vol. 116:1(2022), pp. 79-112. [10.3917/assy.116.0079]

Sumerian model contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection

Spada, Gabriella
2022

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This article presents four fragmentary prisms and one tablet of the Rosen Collection recording Sumerian model contracts. Topics include exchange, rental, and sale of real estate, loans, adoption, marriage, and the rescue of a foundling. Two model court cases and three provisions of the “Laws about Rented Oxen” are also recorded in the presented documents.
2022
Mesopotamia; Old Babylonian period; Sumerian; cuneiform; Old Babylonian schools; Sumerian model contracts
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Sumerian model contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection / Spada, Gabriella. - In: REVUE D'ASSYRIOLOGIE ET D'ARCHÉOLOGIE ORIENTALE. - ISSN 0373-6032. - Vol. 116:1(2022), pp. 79-112. [10.3917/assy.116.0079]
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