Treaties and Legal Contracts from the Ancient Near East

Old Babylonian contract sealed with seven seals (ANEP #239)

Marriage and Divorce Documents from the Ancient Near East

• 21st c. BC: New Sumerian divorce settlement
  
• Old Assyrian divorce document
  
• 19th c. BC: Old Assyrian marriage contract
  
• 15th c. BC: Abrogation of a marriage agreement
  
• Ugaritic: Manumission and Marriage contract
  
• 5th c. BC: Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine: Mibtahiah's marriage contracts
  
• 5th c. BC: Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine: Manumission and marriage of a female slave
  

Ancient Near Eastern Treaties and Contracts

• Assyrian-Hittite treaty