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| | ==Codex Hammurapi== |
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| **Codex Hammurapi** | |
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| //Artifact//: Stone stela\\ | //Artifact//: Stone stele\\ |
| //Provenience//: Susa, modern Shush\\ | //Provenience//: Susa, modern Shush\\ |
| //Period//: Late Old Babylonian Period (ca 1800-1595 BC)\\ | //Period//: Late Old Babylonian Period (ca 1800-1595 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ | //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ |
| //Text genre, language//: Royal inscription, legal; Akkadian\\ | //Text genre, language//: Royal inscription, legal; Akkadian\\ |
| [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253|CDLI page]]\\ | [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P464358|CDLI page]]\\ |
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| //Description//: The stela of Hammurabi, now housed in the Louvre Museum, was found in Susa, where it was carried off by Šutruk-Nuḫḫunte after the sack of Babylon in 1155. It was composed much earlier during the last part of the reign of the King Hammurabi (1792-1750). The basalt stela records 282 legal provisions that deal with a range of cases, including those that involve economic transactions, loans, robbery and theft, negligence, marriage, and inheritance, among others. The overwhelming majority of the law provisions are expressed using the casuistic formula, where the protasis presents the circumstances of a legal case, and the apodosis presents the appropriate legal response to the case. The text of the laws are set within a larger prologue and epilogue, which are written in the hymnic-epic dialect and which reveal key aspects of kingship, particularly the king's commitment to justice. The top portion of the stela depicts King Hammurabi receiving the laws from Šamaš, the god of justice, along with a ring and a rod, two symbols of law and justice. (Moudhy al-Rashid, University of Oxford) | //Description//: The stela of Hammurabi, now housed in the Louvre Museum, was found in Susa, where it was carried off by Šutruk-Nuḫḫunte after the sack of Babylon in 1155. It was composed much earlier during the last part of the reign of the King Hammurabi (1792-1750). The basalt stela records 282 legal provisions that deal with a range of cases, including those that involve economic transactions, loans, robbery and theft, negligence, marriage, and inheritance, among others. The overwhelming majority of the law provisions are expressed using the casuistic formula, where the protasis presents the circumstances of a legal case, and the apodosis presents the appropriate legal response to the case. The text of the laws are set within a larger prologue and epilogue, which are written in the hymnic-epic dialect and which reveal key aspects of kingship, particularly the king's commitment to justice. The top portion of the stela depicts King Hammurabi receiving the laws from Šamaš, the god of justice, along with a ring and a rod, two symbols of law and justice. (Moudhy al-Rashid, University of Oxford) |
