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ERICH LESSING / ART RESOURCE, NY

LAW OF THE LAND. This cuneiform tablet details a lawsuit against Sumulailum, a woman who owned a house and garden in Hazor and a garden in Gilead. The king of Hazor judged the case and ruled in favor of Sumulailum. The text sheds light on the Canaanite elites who lived at Hazor during the Middle Bronze Age.