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Full text. Code of Hammurabi at Wikisource. The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755β1750 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 Code of Hammurabi was a collection of 282 laws dealing with a wide range of issues. It is not the earliest surviving law code [25] [b] but was proved more influential in world politics and international relations [27] [28] as instead of focusing on compensating the victim of crime, as in earlier Sumerian law codes, the Code of Hammurabi ...
Rod-and-ring symbol. The goddess of the Burney relief presenting a rod-and-ring symbol in each hand. Mesopotamian deity sitting on a stool, holding the rod-and-ring symbol. Old-Babylonian fired clay plaque from Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. The rod-and-ring symbol is a symbol that is depicted on Mesopotamian stelas, cylinder seals, and reliefs.
The Code of Lipit-Ishtar is a collection of laws promulgated by Lipit-Ishtar ( r. 1934 β 1924 BCE ( MC) ), a ruler in Lower Mesopotamia. As cuneiform law, it is a legal code written in cuneiform script in the Sumerian language. [2] [3] It is the second-oldest known extant legal code after the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Cuneiform law. Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites. [1] The Code of Hammurabi is the best-known of the cuneiform laws, but there were a number of precursor ...
Sippar was the cult site of the sun god (Sumerian Utu, Akkadian Shamash) and the home of his temple E -babbara ( π πππ, means "white house"). During early Babylonian dynasties, Sippar was the production center of wool. The Code of Hammurabi stele was probably erected at Sippar.
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a stele that dates to approximately 2254β2218 BC, in the time of the Akkadian Empire, and is now at the Louvre in Paris. The relief measures 200 cm. in height (6' 7") [1] and was carved in pinkish sandstone, [2] with cuneiform writings in Akkadian and Elamite.
Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (born 10 June 1858, KΕnigsmacker β died 21 September 1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possession of the Scheil dynastic tablet and first translated it. After being ordained in 1887, he took ...