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Code of Hammurabi

Maker unknown

Babylonian law stele of Hammurabi bearing one of the most famous surviving ancient legal corpora.

Date
c. 1792–1750 BCE
Collection
Musée du Louvre
Reference
SB 8

Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.

Record

Medium
Basalt
Dimensions
225 × 79 × 47 cm
Origin
Iraq
Owner
French State

In the Tapestry

Associated with
HammurabiA
Culture of origin
BabyloniaA

Provenance and history

  1. c. 1792–1750 BCE

    CreatedA

Sources

  1. A

    collections.louvre.fr

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