Among the enormous quantity of legal and economic documents discovered inMesopotamia, complete documents or sets of tablets concerning the same subjectare rare, particularly for cases affecting the same family over several generations.A kudurru dating from the end of the Kassite epoch, and now in the BritishMuseum, is vandally unique in giving a detailed account of a contest concerning aninheritance, lasting for three generations and more than forty years. This text isof great interest not only because it gives a great deal of information oninheritance fares at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 12th centUries B.C.E.,but also because it refers to a patrimonial redemption which can be considered asa "lineage claim", an aspect of the law about Which we have very littleinformation.
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