Old Babylonian legal documents from ISIN in the hearst museum of anthropology, Berkeley

Abstract

In this article are published eight Old Babylonian legal documents primarily from Isin. Of these texts, now kept in the Hearst Anthropological Museum (Berkeley), four deal with real estate transactions, one with prebendary sales, two with inheritance divisions (one for prebendary shares, one for fields), and one with adoption. These texts, dating from the reigns of Damiq-ilišu, Hammurabi, and Samsu-iluna, add to our still fragmentary knowledge of the social history of Old Babylonian Isin.