CHAPTER VI

SOCIAL LIFE

The Contract-tablets--Married Life--Burial--Slavery--Lowness of Wages--Property--Taxes--Prices--Usury--The Army--Navy--The Bureaucracy 109

APPENDIX

Assyrian Measures of Length--Measures of Capacity--Measures of Weight and Coinage--The Months of the Year 118

Babylonian Kings--Assyrian Kings--High Priests of Assur--Kings of Assyria 120

Synchronisms between Assyrian and Biblical History 125

The Principal Deities of Babylonia and Assyria 126

A PRIMER OF ASSYRIOLOGY