See Donald J. Wiseman, The Alalakh Tablets (London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1953), p. 38; see also Greenstein, “A Forensic Understanding,” pp. 257–258. For a different interpretation of the gesture, see Meir Malul, Studies in Mesopotamian Legal Symbolism (Kevalaer and Neukirchen-Vluyn: Butzon & Bercker/Neukirchener Verlag, 1988), pp. 432–439.