Talk:Assyrian law
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[edit] Copyvio
The source I copied and pasted the content from, states that the material is public domain. — EliasAlucard|Talk 11:35 09 Oct, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] reason for removal
"Assyrian law was to a large extent derived from Babylonia. - http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/A/ASSYRIA/ "
The reason I have been removing this is that the authority cited, the ISBE, is so old that it was written before the Assyrian Code had been fully discovered and properly studied, and cites only even older books written before the Assyrian Code was even discovered at all, so it does not seem like a modern, informed source. That is why I researched and looked up the information on when the Code was discovered and by whom, and added it to the article (i.e., it was discovered by the German Oriental Society). If you can find a more recent scholarly source that the Assyrian law was "derived from Babylonia", preferably one with examples as opposed to a bald assertion, it should be fine, although presumably it would be better parallelism in that case to say it was derived from "Babylonian law", not derived from "Babylonia". Til Eulenspiegel 18:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
