He has written the stele, he continues, to bestow protection upon the weak, the widow and the orphan, and to further the cause of justice.
Future kings are to observe the laws without change and are to receive blessing.
Moreover, H and Pen- recognizes and legislates for three alties. To these certain employments and places were interdicted, as the keeping and entering of a beer-shop. On the other hand they were protected from slander, were evidently respected in the community, and were not prostitutes, as they are so often designated. For keepers of beer-shops, generally women, who were made responsible for order in their shops, were enjoined to report treasonous talk, and seem to have had the power of arrest. The place of justice was the temple or temple gate, and in the temple the records were filed.