Equity, redemption and release in ancient legal traditions - 08/06/2018, Leiden (Netherlands)
The equity phenomenon, whereby legal practice on the ground is amended or corrected by a variety of means, is well attested in the cuneiform traditions. The right to redeem property previously sold or pledged belongs here, as do the royal debt-release edicts. Yet the phenomenon is also wider than this and the aim of this one-day conference will be to gather scholars to present archival evidence from a range of different periods and places, with particular focus on cuneiform sources. In addition to Old Babylonian archival evidence from different localities, papers will also address the third millennium evidence, evidence from LBA Emar, the Middle Assyrian edicts, and Neo-Babylonian practices. From outside Mesopotamia, Egyptian and epigraphic Roman evidence will be presented. The accent of the day is on the operation of equity, how it worked based on the archival evidence, but the broad scope of the papers is intended to open up comparative discussion and perspectives that will be of interest to Assyriologists, Egyptologists, and ancient historians more generally.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 08/06/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Conference room, Johan Huizinga Building, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Stephen Moore
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PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
9:30-9:45 Registration 9:45-10:00 Welcome and opening remarks Chair: Sophie Démare-Lafont 10.00-10:30 Hans Neumann (Münster) Zu den ökonomischen und juristischen Aspekten von Freilassung, Freikauf und der Auslösung von Sklaven in Mesopotamien im ausgehenden 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 10:40-11.10 Anne Goddeeris (Ghent) Putting Principles into Practice: The role of the paternal estate in Old Babylonian redemptions 11:10-11:30 Coffee break 11.30-12:00 Guido Pfeifer (Frankfurt) The provision of sanctions against the circumvention of debt releases in the Edict of Ammi-ṣaduqa 12.10-12.40 Stephen Moore (Leiden) Redeeming the priesthood: equity in service of the cult at Old Babylonian Nippur 12.45-13.30 Lunchbreak Chair: Guido Pfeifer 13.30-14.00 Sophie Démare-Lafont (Paris) Equity practices in Late Bronze Age Syria 14.10-14.40 Cornelia Wunsch (Berlin) Redemption rights versus final sale in the Neo-Babylonian period 14.40-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-15.30 Koen Donker van Heel (Leiden) An ancient Egyptian corrective legal tool that occasionally backfires 15.40-16.10 Egbert Koops (Leiden) "It is malicious to demand what one must surrender" Equitable protection of informal transfer of property 16.10-16.45 Discussion and close