The Treatment of criminals in the ancient Near East
By: edited by Jack M. Sasson
Contributors: Lorton, David, 1945-2011
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Crime; History; Criminal justice, Administration of (Ancient law)
Notes: "Offprint from the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,  Vol. XX (1977)"--Verso of t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The treatment of criminals in ancient Egypt through the New Kingdom / David Lorton; title: Wrongdoing and its sanctions : on "criminal" and "civil" law in the Old Babylonian period / Johannes Renger; title: The Nungal-hymn and the Ekur-prison / Tikva Simone Frymer; title: Treatment of criminals at Mari : a survey / Jack M. Sasson; title: Prison and punishment in Early Anatolia / Kaspar Riemschneider.