Retaliation. See Penalties:

dishonesty in stewardship, hands cut off, 65, 253

eye for eye, 62, 196

for defrauding, torn to pieces on that field by the oxen, 65, 256

if builder's son dies, builder's son is put to death, 64, 230

if slave is killed, builder gives slave for slave, 64, 231

its principles in Babylonia, 74, 98

limb for limb, 62, 197

slave for repudiating master, ear cut off, 67, 282

tooth for tooth, 62, 200

Return of slave purchased:

for defect, 67, 279

within one month for bennu disease, 67, 278

Reward for slave capture, 46, 17

Riparian responsibilities, 49, 53-56, 114, 199, 321

Risks:

farmer's, 48, 45, 46

owner's. See Owner

tenant's, 48, 45

warehouseman's, 53, 125

Roads, their maintenance, 286

Robbery, highway, 46, 22, 23

Runnel for watering, 49, 55

Sacred river, for ordeal, 44, 2, 54, 132

Sacrifices:

shared in by the temple, 210

sometimes sold for cash, 210

Sacrilegious theft from temple, 44, 6, 8

Sale:

of crop for debt, 49, 51

of man and goods to pay debt, 49, 53, 54

alienation of property, 227

all interests safeguarded in the deed, 232

deferred payments, 235

formal preliminaries, 227

fraud in, 235

gardens, 246, 247, 248

stocked, 247, 248

granaries, 246

occasional use of oath in, 233

of fields in first Babylonian dynasty, 248

in Assyrian times, 248

of houses, 240 sq. See Houses

penalties for failure, 233

records at early date, 236

registration of, in temple archives, 227

retention till payment, 225

returned on failure to pay, 235

rights of purchaser, 234

transaction of the business, 227 sq.

unimproved land, 246

Samsu-iluna:

care for deity, 327

temple dues, 327

his canal dug, 24

letters of, summarized, 327 sq.

few in number, 327

their subject, 327

regulates fishing rights, 328

writes on business, 328

Sargon, King of Babylon:

his date fixed, 202, 396

letters to, from Sennacherib, his son, 338 sq.

Scandal, met by ordeal, 54, 132

Scourge of ox-hide, 62, 202

Scourging:

as a penalty, sixty blows, 63, 202

considered as an ancient custom, 97

not a priest or judge, 84, 85

often a woman, 151

the profession, 83, 151

Seal. See Bond

Seditious meetings not allowed in beer-shops, 52, 109

Seduction:

of betrothed daughter-in-law, 54, 130, 56, 155, 132, 134

of slave from service, 45, 15

Sennacherib:

father of Esarhaddon, 108, 369

letters to his father, Sargon, 338 sq.

argument for identification of writer, 338, 339

relating to Armenia, 338

their value for reconstructing history, 339

Separation:

husband deserted home and wife, 55, 142

wife deserted home, belittled husband, etc., 55, 141

Serfs, glebae adscripti, 172, 202

different from slaves, 172, 203

disappearance, 173

hereditary condition, 173, 202

Sesame:

crop with corn, 48, 49, 49, 50-52, 208

receipts for, 208

Settlement:

for children of second wife, 71, D

mutual deeds in, 71, C

given by fathers of bride and bride-groom, 71, C

of pin-money, 132

on wife by “deed of gift,” 132

on wife by husband, 56, 150, 132

on widow, 58, 171, 172

by widow on children, 58, 171

out of court, 87

Shadduf stolen, fine three shekels of silver, 66, 260

Shalmaneser IV., 202

Shamash-shum-ukîn:

contemporary events, 360 sq., 368

letters illustrating his reign, 347 sq. , 353 sq.

son of Esarhaddon, 366

Share. See Bond, Inheritance:

belonging to votary or vowed woman, 60, 179-182

between brothers, cases of, 161-165

children of first and second husband share equally in marriage-portion, 59, 173

of first share it all, if no second family, 59, 174

children of maid, if acknowledged by father, share with children of wife, 58, 170;

but children of wife take precedence, 58, 170

children of two marriages, 73, K

dividing of father's estate, 161 sq.

division at father's death, 58, 167;

mother's death, 58, 167

divorced wife has a child's part, 54, 137

farmed, leased on shares, 48, 41-46, 270

form of land tenancy, 197

of deceased father's estate to eldest son, 57, 165

of sacrifices by temple, 210

sometimes sold for cash, 210

reversionary interest to brothers, 60, 178

sons of second wife, 91, D

widow on remarriage, 73, H

with reservation, gift to favorite, 57, 165

wife's marriage present, 56, 150

bride-price for unmarried son, 57, 166

portion for votary sister, 59, 178

Sheep:

damage done by, 49, 57, 58

manner of grazing them, 49, 58

sheep-shearing, 300

Shepherd, duties and responsibilities of, 66, 262-267

Shipping:

boats hired, 285

its value in trading, 284, 285

Sin-iddinam, letters of, 316, 329

Skins, account of, 301

Slander:

against votary or unmarried woman, 53, 127

in capital suit, 44, 3

not to be profitable, 57, 161

of title to property, 45, 11

of wife, to be purged by ordeal, 54, 132

seditious, 52, 109