[129.1] Vide Winckler’s “Die Gesetze Hammurabi” in Der Alte Orient, 1906; an English version of the code in Johns’ Babylonian and Assyrian Laws and Contracts.

[130.1] The son of the slain man could claim compensation for manslaughter. In an Assyrian document a slave-girl is handed over to the son at the grave of the slain man. This is interesting, for it seems to point to some consideration for the feelings of the ghost (vide Johns, op. cit., p. 116).

[132.1] Vide Johns, op. cit., p. 77.

[132.2] Op. cit., p. 83.

[132.3] Op. cit., p. 85.

[132.4] Op. cit., p. 86.

[132.5] Op. cit., p. 90.

[133.1] Translated by Scheil in Rev. de l’hist. des Religions, 1897, p. 205.

[133.2] Zimmern in K.A.T.3, p. 455; cf. his Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Babyl. Religion, ii. p. 147, “for the House-God, the House-Goddess, for the House-daimon thou shalt erect three altars.”

[134.1] For exceptions, vide infra, pp. [213], [217].