The earliest and most famous example is Code of Hammurabi which set the different punishment and compensation according to the different class / group of victims and perpetrators.

The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC.

In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.

The Prologue of the Code of Hammurabi ( the first 305 inscribed squares on the stele ) is on such a tablet, also at the Louvre ( Inv # AO 10237 ).

Some gaps in the list of benefits bestowed on cities recently annexed by Hammurabi may imply that it is older than the famous stele ( it is currently dated to the early 18th century BC ).

Hammurabi ( Akkadian from Amorite ʻAmmurāpi, " the kinsman is a healer ", from ʻAmmu, " paternal kinsman ", and Rāpi, " healer "; ( died c. 1750 BC ) was the sixth king of Babylon ( that is, of the First Babylonian Dynasty ) from 1792 BC to 1750 BC middle chronology ( 1728 BC – 1686 BC short chronology ).

Hammurabi is known for the set of laws called Hammurabi's Code, one of the first written codes of law in recorded history.

Hammurabi is best known for the promulgation of a new code of Babylonian law: the Code of Hammurabi.

One of the first written laws in the world, the Code of Hammurabi was inscribed on a stele and placed in a public place so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate.

There is also a frieze by Adolph Weinman depicting the " great lawgivers of history ", including Hammurabi, on the south wall of the U. S. Supreme Court building.

The " Code of Hammurabi " is also cited as a likely starting point for the Jewish Ten Commandments.

His code of laws, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952 ) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi by 300 years.

There is a myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi ( circa 1780 BCE ), where the thirteenth law is omitted.

* c. 1792 BCE – 1750 BCE: ( middle chronology ) – Stela of Hammurabi, from Susa ( modern Shush, Iran ) is made.

The sixth king of this dynasty was Hammurabi ( 1792-1750 BC ) who made Babylon the capital of a vast empire and is best remembered for his code of laws.

In the famous legal code written by Hammurabi, the principle of exact reciprocity is very clearly used.

The principle is found in Babylonian Law ( see Code of Hammurabi ) ( 1780 BCE ).

The earliest surviving civil code is the Code of Hammurabi, produced circa 1760 BC by the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the ancient Near East.

However, one stele of Hammurabi has been found as far north as Diyarbekir, where he claims the title " King of the Amorites ".

Mesopotamia, as shown by successive law codes, those of Urukagina, Lipit Ishtar and Hammurabi, across its history became more and more a patriarchal society, one in which the men were far more powerful than the women.

An inscription of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest known sets of laws

Hammurabi ( 17th century BC ) was a king of the Babylonian Empire who made Babylon one of the greatest metropolises in antiquity.

They were one of the instruments of the downfall of the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, and acquiring a series of powerful kingdoms, including the founding of Babylon as a state, culminating in the triumph under Hammurabi of one of them, that of Babylon.

* Hammurapi is one transliteration ( spelling ) of Hammurabi.

Other ancient legal codes, such as the Code of Hammurabi, similarly forbade compulsion in economic matters, like the sale of land, and made it clear that when a rich man murders a poor one, it is still murder.

The short chronology is one chronology of the Near Eastern Bronze and Early Iron Age, which fixes the reign of Hammurabi to 1728 BC – 1686 BC and the sack of Babylon to 1531 BC.

The other one is the top part of the Code of Hammurabi which was actually discovered in Elamite Susa where it had been brought as booty ( see image ).

Ten great lawgivers, Minos, Hammurabi, Moses, Akhnaton, Solon, Solomon, Julius Caesar, Justinian I, Charlemagne, and Napoleon are depicted emerging from pylonic masses.

* Courtroom friezes: The South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the ancient world and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus.

Shamash ( seated ), depicted as handing symbols of authority to Hammurabi ( relief on the upper part of the stele of code of Hammurabi | Hammurabi's code of laws )

The mr hoe or hand-plough was depicted in art as early as predynastic Egypt, and hoes are also mentioned in ancient documents like the Code of Hammurabi ( ca.

On and near Highway 8 to the east, Iraqi forces trying to either redeploy to stand and fight or simply escape, many of them belonging to the elite Iraqi Republican Guard's 1st Armored Division " Hammurabi ", were engaged over a much larger area in smaller groups by the U. S. ground forces consisting of nine artillery battalions and a battalion of AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships operating under the command of General Barry McCaffrey.

Some of the better-known ancient law codes include the code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin, the code of Hammurabi of Babylonia, the Hittite code, the Assyrian code and Mosaic law.

Successive legal codes in Babylon, including the code of Hammurabi ( c. 1790 BC ), reflected Mesopotamian society's belief that law derived from the will of the gods ( see Babylonian law ).

The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a human-sized stone stele and various clay tablets.

Hammurabi ruled for 42 years, ca.

In the preface to the law code, he states, " Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the chief god of Babylon ( The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005 ), to bring about the rule in the land.

Rather than being a modern legal code or constitution, it may have as its purpose the self-glorification of Hammurabi by memorializing his wisdom and justice.

Various copies of portions of the Code of Hammurabi have been found on baked clay tablets, some possibly older than the celebrated diorite stele now in the Louvre.

1700 BC text that was said to be partly parallel to portions of the Hammurabi code.

Hammurabi had many other punishments as well.

* Code of Hammurabi translated by R. F.

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* The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King.

Similarly, the Covenant Code ( the law code in Exodus 20: 22-23: 33 ) has notable similarities in both content and structure with the Laws of Hammurabi.