Volume 1

Primitive civilizations, or, Outlines of the history of ownership in archaic communities / by E.J. Simcox.

  • Edith Simcox
Date:
1897
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Credit: Primitive civilizations, or, Outlines of the history of ownership in archaic communities / by E.J. Simcox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV. Babylonia and Assyria First and Second Babylonian Dynasties . - - .282 The Third (Kassite) Dynasty . • • • . • 285 Obscure Dynasties (Fourth to Ninth) Contemporary v. ith Rising Power of Assyria 295 Babylonia and Assyria. From Tiglath-Pileser III. to Sargon 304 From Senacherib to the Fall of Nineveh . . • - 3°9 The New Babylonian Empire 3^5 V. Commercial Law and Contract Tablets . . • • 32° General Features 32° Babylonian Mortgages • 322 Ancient Title Deeds and Contracts of the First Babylonian Dynasty . 32/ Commercial Phrases in Bi-lingual Syllabaries . . • 339 Babylonian and Assyrian Deeds (Fourth to Ninth Dynasty) 342 Later Babylonian Deeds and Lawsuits .... - 34-8 VI. Domestic Relations and Family Law 36° Akkadian Law Tablet 3^o Later Marriage Contracts and other Deeds executed by Women ..••••••• 372 Filiation and Adoption 377 BOOK III. FROM MASSALIA TO MALABAR. From Massalia to Malabar 3S3 I. The Phoenicians and Carthage 3^9 II. Prehistoric Populations of Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy 412 III. The Etruscans, Lycians, and Rhodians .... 425 The Etruscans 425 Lycia ....••••••• 427 Rhodes ...••••••• 441 IV. The Laws of Charondas 445 V. Legendary Amazons and Historical Iberians . . . 454 VI. Crete and Sparta 465 VII. A Syrian Law-Book 4§7 VIII. Ancient Arabia 496 The Kingdoms of Ma'in and Saba ..... 497 The Nabataeans • 511 Bahrein, Sokotra, and the Sea Trade . . . • 5*4 Traces of Pre-Islamitic Custom and Ethics in Modern Arabia 521 IX. Hamitic African Tribes 53° X. Malabar 545
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