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## Die unmögliche Tatsache This study hopes to meet the Jubilar's keen interest in early Ancient Mesopotamian Law and its sources. It is based on M. Civil's masterly edition of the clay cylinder MS 2064 (hand copy by A. George) which stimulates new studies of the Laws of Ur-Namma, the world's earliest known code of laws, and new questions to its text and the purview of the laws. The author here presents a new "score" edition and discusses questions of epigraphy, grammar and textual tradition of the Laws of Ur-Namma during the half millennium between the lost original inscription on a statue promulgating the laws in the 22nd century B. C., the new late Ur III source (ca. 2000 B. C.) and those from OB times (between the 19th and the 17th centuries B. C.) from different places. He assumes that the changes the Laws of Ur-Namma underwent indicate an ongoing interest in them as a legal source side by side with the younger law codes. He also addresses the question whether Ur III court documents might show influences of the laws on the jurisdiction, and whether they might refer back to the Laws of Ur-Namma. Philological and juristic problems of single laws are discussed. A score edition of

Author

Claus Wilcke

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Published

2015

Language

DE