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 Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia
Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon
Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more narrow approach to consider the multifunctional practices of detaining the body in ancient Iraq. It is the contention of this book that imprisonment arose out of the desire to control and detain the body in relation to labor. The practice of detainment for coercion became adaptable to a variety of circumstances and goals, which shaped the contexts and practices of imprisonment. With time, religious ideology was attached to imprisonment. In one literary text, a prisoner was refined like silver and given new birth in the prison. The misery of imprisonment gave rise to lament through which a criminal could be ritually purified and restored to a right relationship with their personal god. Beyond this literary perspective, this work reconstructs how imprisonment and religious ideology intersected with the judicial process and explores the evidence related to the reasons behind imprisonment, the treatment of prisoners, and the evidence related to the lengths of their stays.

Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon 1st Table of contents:

 The Birth and Evolution of the Prison in Modernity
The Prison and Punishment
A Roadmap to This Book
1. Imprisonment from the Dawn of History to the First Fall of Babylon
Introduction
What We Know and What We Don’t
Methodology and the Hymn to the Prison Goddess Nungal
2. Confine and Control: Lexical and Social-Historical Summary
Introduction
e2-eš2
bīt asīrī
e2 ennuĝ = bīt ṣibitti
Other Key Terms
The Prison in Literary Texts
Conclusion
3. How to End up Imprisoned
Introduction
Law Collections in Ancient Mesopotamia
Imprisonment in Edicts and Law Collections
Reasons for Imprisonment
Conclusion
4. Judicial Process and Proof
Introduction
Justice in Mesopotamia
Judicial Summoning
Detainment of Suspects
Judicial Process
The Awe of the Judicial Process
Oaths
The River Ordeal
Imprisonment of the Guilty
Conclusion
5. The Imprisoned Life
Introduction
Life on the Inside: A Literary Perspective
Personal Accounts of Life on the Inside
Ur III Prison Rations
Old Babylonian Prison Rations
Time Served45
Conclusion
6. The King in the Cage: Ritual Purification and Imprisonment
Introduction
Purity and Purification
Purity and the Gods
Control Through Imprisonment
Ritual Purification Through Imprisonment
Imprisonment and Positive Change
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Authors
Primary Texts
General Subject Index

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