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Learning of a craft implies an adoption (1)

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07 Crafts and economy
10 Judiciary and legislature


 		Keywords
adoption
Period
Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Empires 		Channel
Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian texts

Text
Codex Hammurapi 188:
If a craftsman takes a young child to rear and then teaches him his craft, he will not be reclaimed.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Codex Hammurapi 188

Bibliography

Roth 1995, 119Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press 1995.

Amar Annus


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