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

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

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 ).

As Hammurabi was assisted during the war in the south by his allies from the north, the absence of soldiers in the north led to unrest.

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.

A carving at the top of the stele portrays Hammurabi receiving the laws from the god Shamash or possibly Marduk, and the preface states that Hammurabi was chosen by the gods of his people to bring the laws to them.

The Babylonians developed a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BC, and practised by early Mediterranean sailing merchants.

The most renowned of these was that of Hammurabi, as mentioned above, who was postumously famous for his set of laws, the Code of Hammurabi ( created ca.

Hammurabi was from the Mesopotamian culture that revered Marduk, among others.

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.

It later became a part of the Dynasty of the Sealand after the death of the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi, and was reconquered into Babylonia by the Kassites in the 16th century BC.

This was made by order of Hammurabi after the expulsion of the Elamites and the settlement of his kingdom.

In 1901, a copy of the Code of Hammurabi was discovered on a stele by J.

An Amorite named Abi-ramu or Abram was the father of a witness to a deed dated to the reign of Hammurabi's grandfather ; Ammi-Ditana, great-grandson of Hammurabi, still titled himself " king of the land of the Amorites ".

The seat of empire was thus transferred to Babylonia for the first time since Hammurabi over a thousand years before.

It was, however, reserved for the genius of Hammurabi to make Babylon his metropolis and weld together his vast empire by a uniform system of law.

Beginning with E. Schrader ( Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, vol II ( 1888 ), pp 299ff ) this king was usually associated with Hammurabi, who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC.

This last, which perhaps owed its name to Hammurabi, was conducted from the Euphrates towards Upi or Opis, which has been shown by H. Winckler ( Altorientalische Forschungen, ii.

" With the establishment of the Babylonian empire, under Hammurabi, early in the 2nd millennium BC, the religious as well as the political centre of influence was transferred to Babylon, Marduk became lord of the pantheon, many of Enlil's attributes were transferred to him, and Ekur, Enlil's temple, was to some extent neglected.

After his death, the empire was soon defeated by Hammurabi of Babylon came under the control of the First Babylonian Dynasty throughout this period.

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.

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

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.

Thus Hammurabi ascended to the throne as the king of a minor kingdom in the midst of a complex geopolitical situation.

Hammurabi and the king of Larsa made an alliance when they discovered this duplicity and were able to crush the Elamites, although Larsa did not contribute greatly to the military effort.

Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-Nammu ( king of Ur ), Sargon ( who established the Akkadian Empire ), Hammurabi ( who established the Old Babylonian state ), Ashur-uballit II and Tiglath-Pileser I ( who established the Assyrian Empires ).

The armies of Babylonia under Hammurabi were well-disciplined, and conquered the city-states of Isin, Eshnunna, Uruk, Mari and eventually Assyria after a protracted struggle with the Assyrian king Ishme-Dagan for control of Mesopotamia.

One Amorite king of Babylonia, Hammurabi ( 1792 – 1750 BC ) founded the first Babylonian Empire, which lasted only as long as his lifetime.

In around 1800 BCE, the Amorite king of Babylon, King Hammurabi, conquered much of Mesopotamia, but this Babylonian empire collapsed after his death due to attacks from mountain-dwelling people known as the Kassites from Asia Minor, who went on to rule Babylon for over 500 years.

With the later rise to power of the Babylonians in the 18th century BCE, the king, Hammurabi, declared Marduk, a deity who before then had not been of significant importance, to a position of supremacy alongside Anu and Enlil.

Although ancient peoples probably did not realize that fingerprints could uniquely identify individuals, references from the age of the Babylonian king Hammurabi ( 1792-1750 BCE ) indicate that law officials would take the fingerprints of people who had been arrested.

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

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.

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

Three centuries later, the Babylonian king Hammurabi enacted the set of laws named after him.

This empire came to end when Hammurabi, the Amorite king of Babylon incorporated the city into his short lived empire following the death of Ishme-Dagan I circa 1756 BC, and the next three Assyrian kings were regarded as vassals.

Similarly, the great Babylonian king Hammurabi ( ca.

Sin-Muballit was the father of Hammurabi and the fifth king of the first dynasty of Babylonia, reigning c. 1748 to 1729 BC.

Excavations conducted there for six months, from Christmas of 1903 to June 1904, for the University of Chicago, by Dr. Edgar James Banks, proved that these mounds covered the site of the ancient city of Adab ( Ud-Nun ), hitherto known only from the Sumerian king list and a brief mention of its name in the introduction to the Hammurabi Code.

Mari was destroyed again around 1759 BC by Hammurabi, sixth king of Babylon.

Kuturnahunte I of Elam, seizing the opportunity left by Samsu-iluna's attack on Uruk, marched into the ( now wall-less ) city and plundered it, among the items looted was a statue of Inanna which wouldn't be returned until the reign of Ashurbanipal 11 centuries In Assyria, a native vice regent named Puzur-Sin ejected Asinum who had been a vassal king of his fellow Amorite Hammurabi.