Everything about The Code Of Hammurabi totally explained
The
Code of Hammurabi (
Codex Hammurabi), the best preserved ancient
law code, was created ca.
1760 BC (
middle chronology) in ancient
Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king,
Hammurabi. Earlier collections of laws include the
codex of Ur-Nammu, king of
Ur (ca. 2050 BC), the Codex of
Eshnunna (ca. 1930 BC) and the codex of
Lipit-Ishtar of
Isin (ca. 1870 BC).
At the top of the
basalt stele is a
bas-relief image of a Babylonian god (either
Marduk or
Shamash), with the king of Babylon presenting himself to the god, with his right hand raised to his mouth as a mark of respect.
The laws are numbered from 1 to 282 (numbers 13 and 66-99 are missing) and are inscribed in
Old Babylonian cuneiform script on the eight-foot tall stela. It was discovered in December 1901 in
Susa,
Elam, which is now
Khuzestan,
Iran, where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king
Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC. It is currently on display at the
Louvre Museum in
Paris. Most of these codes come from similar cultures and racial groups in a relatively small geographical area, and they've passages which resemble each other. The earlier
Code of Ur-Nammu (21st century BC), the
Hittite laws (ca. 1300 BC), and
Mosaic Law (traditionally ca. 1400 BC under
Moses), all contain statutes that bear at least passing resemblance to those in the Code of Hammurabi and other codices from the same geographic area.
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