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Detail of an alabaster wall panel relief showing two scribes. The first holds a clay-tablet in his left hand; the second is writing on a roll presumably made of leather. Nimrud: Central Palace, 8th century BCE. Museum number: BM 1848,1104.5. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Assyria in the first millennium BCE was filled with lawsuits but no lawyers. What do we know about courts, evidence, criminal versus civil law, and ultimately, justice?

The long march of deportees begins. From A.H. Layard, A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853). Public Domain, courtesy of The New York Public Library.

February 16, 2021

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Assyria War & Empire

Neo-Assyrian Deportation and the Levant

February 2021 | Vol. 9.2 By Jonathan Valk At the height of its power in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, the Neo-Assyrian state could truly call itself a universal empire. It exercis

Neo-Assyrian Tag

Neo-Assyrian Legal Practices – Law Without Lawyers

Neo-Assyrian Deportation and the Levant