Two Aramaic Legal Documents Author(s): T. Kwasman

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The Aramaic clay tablets presented here are legal documents with Neo-Assyrian formularies.’ These texts are important as they attest to an Akkadian legal tradition and its adaptation to an Aramaic context. The fact that the writing material is clay is exceptional since one would expect an Aramaic document to be written on parchment or papyrus. Published examples of Aramaic docu- ments on clay are relatively uncommon although more are

Two Aramiac legal documents