Source: Huehnergard (2013, p. 64)
Source: Huehnergard (2013, p. 65)
Source: Huehnergard (2013, p. 65)
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Location of Law § 2 ·
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- 1 If
- 2
- 3 a man
- 4 laid a charge of witchcraft against
- 5 a man
- 6
- 7 but
- 8
- 9 [he]
- 10 has not
- 11 convicted
- 12 him,
- 13
- 14 [then]
- 15
- 16 the one against whom the witchcraft charge was laid
- 17 will go to the River;
- 18 he
- 19 will dive into the River,
- 20
- 21 and
- 22 if
- 23
- 24 the River has defeated
- 25 him,
- 26
- 27 [then]
- 28
- 29 his accuser
- 30 will take away his estate;
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34 [and]
- 35 if
- 36
- 37 the River has cleared
- 38 that man
- 39
- 40 and
- 41
- 42 he
- 43 has come out alright,
- 44
- 45 [then]
- 46
- 47 the one who laid the witchcraft charge against him
- 48 will be executed;
- 49
- 50 [and]
- 51
- 52 the one who dove into the River
- 53 will take away the estate of
- 54 his accuser.
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
Glossary
Key concepts, places, and persons
Mesopotamia (category:
River Challenge (category:
Vocabulary
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šumma (conditional
awīlum (
kišpī (
eli (
awīlim (
iddīma (G-Stem
lā (negation
uktīššu (
ša (relative
elīšu (
kišpū (
ana (
šumma (conditional
mubbiršu (
šumma (conditional
awīlam (
ša (relative
elīšu (
kišpī (
iddâk (N-Stem
ša (relative
mubbiršu (
Staff notes
- 'The River Challenge'Added on March 22, 2024 by eHammurabi Staff
Only laws § 2 and § 132 seem to require a person to conduct the "River Challenge" to prove their innocence.
See also: § 132 · River Challenge
Citation
Dedović, B. "§ 2 - eHammurabi." OMNIKA Foundation, 22 Oct. 2023, ehlaw.org/law/2. [Accessed 28 Sep. 2024]
Bibliography
Abulhab, Saad D. The Law Code of Hammurabi: Transliterated and Literally Translated from its Early Classical Arabic Language. New York, NY: Blautopf, 2017.
Bergmann, Eugen. Codex Ḫammurabi: Textus Primigenius. Rome, Italy: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1953.
Huehnergard, John. Key to a Grammar of Akkadian (Third Edition). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "OMNIKA: Digital Mythology Library & Search Engine." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation, accessed November 14, 2023. https://omnika.org. [Visit]
Richardson, Mervyn E.J. Hammurabi's Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary. New York, NY: T & T Clark International, 2004.
Sound of Text Contributors. "Sound of Text: AI Text-to-Speech." Accessed November 14, 2023. https://soundoftext.app. [Visit]
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