![]() Oi./OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/Iraqdatabasehome Wikipedia article Wikipedia ABZU /abzubib Oriental Institute Virtual Museum oi./virtualtour Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur oi./museum-exhibits Ancient Near Eastern Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Archaeology News and Resources: : serves the online community interested in anthropology and archaeology is good source for archaeological news and information. Louvre /llv/oeuvres/detail_periode.jsp Metropolitan Museum of Art /toah University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology penn.museum/sites/iraq Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago /museum/highlights/meso Iraq Museum Database ![]() Websites and Resources on Mesopotamia: Ancient History Encyclopedia .com/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia University of Chicago site British Museum .uk Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia ![]() Mesopotamian Culture and Life (38 articles) įirst Villages, Early Agriculture and Bronze, Copper and Late Stone Age Humans (50 articles) Īncient Persian, Arabian, Phoenician and Near East Cultures (26 articles) Several similar collections are known from other areas and periods, and Hammurabi's cannot be taken as representative of all Mesopotamian justice - in fact, it is outstanding for its application of the principle of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, while other "codes" allow monetary penalties.”Ĭategories with related articles in this website: Mesopotamian History and Religion (35 articles) Nancy Demand of Indiana University wrote: It was not a code of law in the modern sense, but probably a collection of legal decisions made by Hammurabi in the course of his activities as a judge and published to advertise his justice. At the top is a design representing Hammurabi in an attitude of adoration before Shamash, the sun-god, who as the god of justice and righteousness is the presiding genius of the king as law-giver, and from whom in their ultimate analysis the laws are derived. Copies were probably prepared and set up in other centres. The code was originally set up in the temple of Marduk at Babylon. Fragments of a second copy have also been found. Morris Jastrow said: “It was carried as a trophy by the Elamites in one of their incursions into Babylonia. not in Babylon, but in a city of the Persian mountains, to which some later conqueror must have carried it in triumph. and clearly intended to be reared in public view. The code was carved upon a black stone monument. Horne wrote: Hammurabi’s code of laws is “the earliest-known example of a ruler proclaiming publicly to his people an entire body of laws, arranged in orderly groups, so that all men might read and know what was required of them. The Code of Hammurabi slab that exists today was moved to Susa in Iran in 1200 B.C. The stele is believed to be one of many that were set up throughout the Babylonian domain to inform people of the law of the land. On the top of the stele Hammurabi is shown standing before Shamash, the sun god and god of justice, receiving the laws. The legal code of Hammurabi is listed on an 8-foot-high black diorite stele from the 18th century B.C. ![]() He also instituted a highly developed administration that included courts and a system for the enforcement of laws. Hammurabi codified them into a fixed and standardized set of laws. Many of the laws had been around before the code was etched in stone. Recognized for putting eye for an eye justice into writing and remarkable for its depth and judiciousness, it consists of 282 case laws with legal procedures and penalties. ![]() The Babylonian king Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) is credited with producing the Code of Hammurabi, by some reckonings the oldest surviving set of laws. ![]()
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