[1600] So Sargon cylinder, ll. 34-42.

[1601] IR. 37, col. i. l. 4.

[1602] See the writer's remarks in Oriental Studies of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, pp. 119-121.

[1603] See the so-called family laws (as early as the days of Hammurabi) in Meissner's Beiträge zum Altbabylonischen Privatrecht, p. 15, where the punishment in the case of the son who casts aside his mother is specifically referred to.

[1604] See, e.g. p. [291].

[1605] See the admirable discussions on Babylonian jurisprudence in Kohler and Pelser's Aus dem Babylonischen Rechtsleben (parts i.-iii., Leipzig, 1890-97).

[1606] S. A. Strong in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1891, p. 460.

[1607] See on this subject Meissner, De Servitute Babylonico-Assyriaca pp. 3, 4, 40-49.

[1608] See especially chapters xxi., xxv., and xxvi.

[1609] See p. [611].