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This study is about the application of "blood currency" well-known from the Old and New Century documents. Although not included in the Middle Ages Law, it is known from the other period documents in which the blood money has taken an important place in the Asur society and the understanding of law. The money of the blood is a right earned by the relatives of the one who is killed. In the Asur documents, the blood money is expressed in the word dāmu. The aforementioned word was always written fonetically in the Ancient Easter period, while in the New Easter documents it was also expressed with the ÚŠ/MÚD logogram.

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This study is about the practice of “blood money”, which is well known from Old Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian documents. Although it is not included in the Middle Assyrian Law Code, it is known from the other sources of the period that it has an important place in Assyrian social life and legal understanding. It is understood that the blood money is a right earned by the relatives of the murdered person. In the Assyrian documents, the blood money is expressed with the word dāmu. While the word in question was always written phonetically in the Old Assyrian period, it was also expressed in the documents of the Neo-Assyrian Period with the logogram ÚŠ/ MÚD.

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