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Who it's for · Why people still read it · If you like it, read next
- Who it's for
- For readers interested in legal history or ancient Mesopotamia who want to read a primary source. Bear in mind that the "eye for an eye" principle covers only part of it: most articles set compensation, and punishments vary with the social rank of offender and victim.
- Why people still read it
- It is one of the oldest and best-preserved legal texts of the ancient Near East: scribes copied it for more than a thousand years, and the stele, found at Susa in 1901, is now in the Louvre. Since its discovery scholars have debated its link to Mosaic law and what it was really for.
If you like it, read next
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- Atlas histórico mundialHermann KinderUseful for placing Babylon and its neighbours in space and time.
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