RT Article
T1 The appellate process in a legal record {di til-la} from Ur III Umma
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 36
IS 2
SP 349
OP 364
A1 Veenker, Ronald
A2 Johnson, J. Cale
LA German
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801474060
AB In this paper, we publish in copy, transliteration and translation a previously unpublished Ur III legal record from Umma. It can be shown, on the basis of internal and prosopographic evidence that the tablet belongs to the relatively large group of Umma legal records that are housed in the British Museum and currently being published by Manuel Molina. This di-til-la is of particular interest, however, in that it includes an appellate process in which an initial legal ruling adjudicated some aspects of the slave sale in question, but other aspects such as the purchase price were appealed to the court of the provincial governor of Umma. We draw some parallels with the appellate process in Old Babylonian legal documents and conclude with a brief discussion of the *-na-na . . . nu- ‘only’ construction in Sumerian.
K1 ‘only'
K1 appeal
K1 di-til-la
K1 Ur III
K1 Mesopotamian law
DO 10.1524/aofo.2009.0022