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Originally Posted by Gilda
Off topic: I just got the latest issue of Walking Dead. It has a somewhat relevant dental reference in it. One man involved in a gladiator style exhibition battle knocks another's teeth out. The other man quite reasonably gets very upset--there are no dentists or dental offices, so there is no way to do any kind of repairs. He's toothless for the rest of his life, so he kills the guy who knocked his teeth out. It's a metaphor for all of the things in civilization that we take for granted, things we don't think about when we don't need them, but need desperately when we do, something Kirkman does really well.
Gilda
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200: If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
201: If he knock out the teeth of a [commoner], he shall pay one-third of a [silver] mina.
An eye was worth 1 mina so teeth were pretty highly valued.