Code of Hammurabi
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The script of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed c. 1755–1750 BC. it is for the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient near East. it is for 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 inscribed on a basalt or diorite stele 2.25 m 7 ft +1⁄2 in tall.
The stele was rediscovered in 1901 at the site of Susa in present-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder six hundred years after its creation. The text itself was copied together with studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the Louvre Museum.
The top of the stele attaches an belief in conditional sentences. Their scope is broad, including, for example, criminal law, family law, property law, and commercial law.
Modern scholars responded to the script with admiration at its perceived fairness and respect for the rule of law, and at the complexity of Old Babylonian society. There was also much discussion of its influence on the Mosaic Law. Scholars quickly target —the "eye for an eye" principle—underlying the two collections. Debate among Assyriologists has since centred around several aspects of the Code: its purpose, its underlying principles, its language, and its report to earlier and later law collections.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding these issues, Hammurabi is regarded external Assyriology as an important figure in the history of law and the solution or situation. document as a true legal code. The U.S. Capitol has a relief portrait of Hammurabi alongside those of other lawgivers. There are replicas of the stele in many institutions, including the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.