In der Strafkolonie
...great stress was laid by the Sumerian courts on the need of making manifest to all, by means of the written word, the guilty for which the accused was punished. Thus, the thief and the woman who marries two husbands must be stoned with stones on which their evil intent has been inscribed; and the woman who has sinned by saying something to a man which she should not have said (the text giving her words [from the Urukagina document] is unfortunately unintelligible) must have her teeth crushed with burnt bricks upon which, presumably, her guilty deed has been inscribed.
-Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character (pg. 83)
...great stress was laid by the Sumerian courts on the need of making manifest to all, by means of the written word, the guilty for which the accused was punished. Thus, the thief and the woman who marries two husbands must be stoned with stones on which their evil intent has been inscribed; and the woman who has sinned by saying something to a man which she should not have said (the text giving her words [from the Urukagina document] is unfortunately unintelligible) must have her teeth crushed with burnt bricks upon which, presumably, her guilty deed has been inscribed.
-Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character (pg. 83)
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