A curse from the Old Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1792 to 1750 BCE) illustrates this custom: “May the god Nergal… have him beaten with his mighty weapon and shatter his limbs like those of a clay figure.” Clearly such outcomes made oaths both solemn and extremely frightening.
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