Court of assize at neo-babylonian Apšu

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This article provides new evidence on the administration of justice in peripheral areas of the Neo-Babylonian empire (626–539 B.C.E). It demonstrates that itinerant judicial collegia constituted an element of the court system of this period. Judges from central Babylonia travelled as far as to the Transtigridian region in order to hear cases and render verdicts. The paper reconstructs the structure of one of such panels; it examines its hierarchy, jurisdiction and bureaucratic practices.