Oldest known extant legal text, 3100 years ago:
Violent times:
- - a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out ½ a mina of silver.
- - If a man has cut off another man’s foot, he is to pay ten shekels.
- - If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
- - If someone severed the nose of another man with a copper knife, he must pay two-thirds of a mina of silver.
- - If a man knocks out a tooth of another man, he shall pay two shekels of silver.
How often did it come to pass that a man severed another man's nose off? Or cut another man's foot off? Why was it necessary that there should be a code of law which addresses such particular crimes?
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