Blood Money in the Assyrian Documents Asur Belgelerinde Kan Parasi

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Akyüz F.

Belleten, cilt.84, sa.301, ss.887-905, 2020 (AHCI, Scopus, TRDizin) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 84 Sayı: 301
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.37879/belleten.2020.887
  • Dergi Adı: Belleten
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, L'Année philologique, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.887-905
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Blood money, Law, Legal practices, Neo-Assyrian, Old Assyrian
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Samsun Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This study is about the practice of "blood money", which is well known from Old Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian documents. Although it is not included in the Middle Assyrian Law Code, it is known from the other sources of the period that it has an important place in Assyrian social life and legal understanding. It is understood that the blood money is a right earned by the relatives of the murdered person. In the Assyrian documents, the blood money is expressed with the word damu. While the word in question was always written phonetically in the Old Assyrian period, it was also expressed in the documents of the Neo-Assyrian Period with the logogram ÚS/ MÚD.