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Old 10-04-2006, 07:37 PM   #19 (permalink)
Gilda
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
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.
Yep. Heck, I'd hate to have to deal with something like that nowadays, with the level of care we have available. With essentially no means of treatment, it would be exponetially worse.

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