Translation Check - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Query: 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
Translation Check
Quoted text:
Charpin[1] wrote (p. 38): “The Babylonians ignored in effect that men were born free and equal. For a slave born of a free mother, amargi signified a return to liberty. For a slave born of a slave mother, amargi meant a return to the master in whose house he was born.”
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- ↑ Dominique Charpin, “Les Décrets Royaux à l’Époque Paléo-Babylonienne, à Propos d’un Ouvrage Récent,” Archiv für Orientforschung, Vol. 34 (1987), p. 38.
