Hammurabi

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The purpose of this page is to collect information about Hammurabi and the code of Hammurabi.

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755-1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, 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 2.25 m (7 ft 4+1/2 in) tall.

The stele was rediscovered in 1901 at the site of Susa in present-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder six hundred years after its creation. The text itself was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the Louvre Museum.

Code of Hammurabi Stele in the French Louvre Museum. — Code of Hammurabi Stele in the French Louvre Museum

REFERENCE LINKS:

Code of Hammurabi (WWW.COMMONLAW.COM) (2011/1202)
The Code of Hammurabi Index (HTTP://AVALON.LAW.YALE.EDU) (2011/1202)
The Code of Hammurabi : Introduction (HTTP://AVALON.LAW.YALE.EDU) (2011/1202)
Babylonian Law--The Code of Hammurabi. (HTTP://AVALON.LAW.YALE.EDU) (2011/1202)
The Code of Hammurabi translated by L. W. King (HTTP://AVALON.LAW.YALE.EDU) (2011/1202)