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Work: Middle Assyrian Laws
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Middle Assyrian Laws — Jastrow 1921 English translation and notes
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36 Morris Jastrow, Jr. be veiled on the highway. The one who is not married is to have her head uncovered on the highway. 32 The unclean 33 [woman] is to be veiled, the harlot 34 is not to be veiled; her head is to be uncovered. 35 Whoever sees a veiled harlot shall seize her. 36 . He shall summon witnesses and bring her to the palace. 37 Hammurabi Code, § 182, might also be married, as Schorr, No. 280. 14, shows, but the Nin-An ('woman of a god'), another class of votaries who live in cloisters, it would appear from the Hammurabi Code, § 127, must remain virgins, as one may also conclude from…
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- Complete supplied 1921 article, Journal of the American Oriental Society 41, pages 1–59, including translations of the two principal texts and discussion of seven additional damaged fragments. Historical numbering, missing text, uncertainty and notes are preserved. Modern JSTOR cover sheet is retained in raw evidence and excluded from the reading body. This is the historical 1921 edition, not a reconstruction or modern critical edition.
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Recorded provenance: Original upstream XML retained unchanged. Body extracts WORD text in original LINE order without spelling repair or translation. Complete supplied 1921 article, Journal of the American Oriental Society 41, pages 1–59, including translations of the two principal texts and discussion of seven additional damaged fragments. Historical numbering, missing text, uncertainty and notes are preserved. Modern JSTOR cover sheet is retained in raw evidence and excluded from the reading body. This is the historical 1921 edition, not a reconstruction or modern critical edition.
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