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Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed c. 1753 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on a basalt stele…

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Author
Hammurabi
Location
Louvre Museum, Ile-de-France, France (originally Sippar, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), found at Susa, Iran) · Replicas: various
Created
c. 1753 BC
Media type
Basalt stele
Purpose
Debated: legislation, law report, or jurisprudence
Subject
Law, justice

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related to Mosaic, Graeco-Roman, and modern · 41
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related to Other Mesopotamian · 27
Code of Hammurabi → Additionally, Also, Code, Code's, Earlier, Eshnunna, Hammurabi, Hittite, It, Lastly, Laws, Like, Lipit-Ishtar, Many, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Middle Assyrian Laws, Near Eastern, Neo-Babylonian Laws, Nonetheless
related to Earlier law collections · 22
Code of Hammurabi → Akkadian, Although Hammurabi's Code, As, Bilalama, Code, Dadusha, Eshnunna, Extant, Hammurabi, Isin, Laws, Lipit-Ishtar, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, The, The Code, The Laws, There, These, They
related to Jurisprudence · 16
Code of Hammurabi → Adolf Oppenheim, Ann Guinan, Assyriology, Code, Fritz Rudolf Kraus, Hammurabi, Key, Kraus, Marc Van De Mieroop, Mesopotamian, Others, Rechtssprüche, Secondly, These, This, Van De Mieroop
related to Legislation · 13
Code of Hammurabi → Assyriology, Code, Hammurabi, However, It, Johns, Justinian, Napoleonic Code, One, Recent Assyriologists, Scheil, The, There
related to Laws · 9
Code of Hammurabi → Driver, Hammurabi, Laws, Louvre, Miles, Near East, Roth's, The, The Code
Location · 2
Code of Hammurabi → Louvre Museum, Ile-de-France, France (originally Sippar, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), found at Susa, Iran), Replicas: various
is a · 2
Code of Hammurabi → Babylonian legal text composed c, longest and best-organised legal text from the ancient Near East
Author · 1
Code of Hammurabi → Hammurabi
Created · 1
Code of Hammurabi → c. 1753 BC

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hammurabi code law laws stele also legal collections mesopotamian babylonian one text prologue however may louvre earlier shamash legislation written

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Code of HammurabiAuthorHammurabi1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiCreatedc. 1753 BC1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiLocationLouvre Museum, Ile-de-France, France (originally Sippar, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), found at Susa, Iran)1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiLocationReplicas: various1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiMedia typeBasalt stele1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiPurposeDebated: legislation, law report, or jurisprudence1.00infobox
Code of HammurabiSubjectLaw, justice1.00infobox
Code of Hammurabiis aBabylonian legal text composed c0.90text
Code of Hammurabiis alongest and best-organised legal text from the ancient Near East0.90text
that of Urukaginainstance ofand reform documents0.80text
king of Lagash in the mid-3rd millennium BCinstance ofand reform documents0.80text
whose reforms combatted corruptioninstance ofand reform documents0.80text

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