The most famous law code of the ancient Near East — 282 case laws issued by Hammurabi of Babylon (c. 1754 BCE) on a black diorite stele topped with the king receiving the law from Shamash.
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Tradition
Akkadian legal-religious composition. Stands in a direct line of descent from the Sumerian codes of Ur-Nammu and Lipit-Ishtar; structurally and thematically influential on the biblical Covenant Code (Exodus 21–23).
Translation
L. W. King, translator, *The Code of Hammurabi* (1915). Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.