Code of Hammurabi

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Code of Hammurabi
Musée du Louvre
Rue de Rivoli
Quartier Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2002

“The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian writing on law from 1755–1750 BC. It is the best-preserved law collection from the ancient Near East, as well as the longest and best-organised. 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 on a basalt stele 2.25 metres tall. It was discovered in 1901, at the site of Susa in present-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder six hundred years after its creation. However, the text was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele is now in the Louvre Museum.” (Code of Hammurabi, Wikipedia)