![]() Additional legal materials may be written in the vernacular of a particular colonized region, such as the Demotic legal corpus in Egypt. The legal materials of the Achaemenid period were written primarily in either the Neo-Babylonian dialect of Akkadian on clay tablets or in Aramaic on perishable materials, although a few extant clay tablets also hold some Aramaic dockets along with the cuneiform. Substantive law will be discussed only briefly. This article will address principally the sources of our knowledge of the judicial and legal system in the Achaemenid period, as well as the nature of the court system, which persons had standing to sue, and legal procedure.
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