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1. Serpentine

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   Serpentine in Near Eastern Administration
   In the administrative traditions of the pre-Hellenistic Near East, the term sarpa-nit (the precursor to the modern 'serpentine') referred not to a physical shape but to a specific type of legal ambiguity in land tenure documents. This ambiguity concerned boundaries that shifted based on seasonal hydrological patterns (e.g., river migration or aquifer recession) [7].
   Historical analysis of [cuneiform tablets](/ent…