Old Assyrian Divorce Document

(Translator: Theophile J. Meek)

Divorce[a]

Published by Fr. Thureau-Dangin, Lettres et contrats de l’epoque de la premièr dynastie babylonienne (1910), No. 242; discussed at length by J. Lewy, ZA,m XXXVI (1925), 139-161.

(The seals of six persons, each preceded by "The seal of.")
Hashusharna, the son of Gudgariya, divorced his wife, Taliya. If Taliya tries to reclaim her (former) husband Hashusharna, she shall pay 2 minas of silver and they shall put her to death in the open. If Gudgariya[1] and Hashusharna try to reclaim Taliya, they shall pay 2 minas of silver and they shall put them to death in the open.


[1] Written defectively as Udgari.

[a] ANET p. 218.

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