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    The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the...
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    as stelae, for the entire public to see; this became known as the Codex Hammurabi. The most intact copy of these stelae was discovered in the 19th century...
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  • Akkad (c. 2254–2218 BC), Sargon's grandson, including for shekels. Codex Hammurabi Law 234 (c. 1755–1750 BC) stipulated a 2-shekel prevailing wage for...
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    of Akkad (c. 2254–2218 BC), Sargon's grandson, including shekels. Codex Hammurabi Law 234 (c. 1755–1750 BC) stipulated a 2-shekel prevailing wage for...
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    many vessels to limit the loss due to any single vessel capsizing. Codex Hammurabi Law 238 (c. 1755–1750 BC) stipulated that a sea captain, ship-manager...
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  • (c. 2254–2218 BC), Sargon's grandson, including those of shekels. Codex Hammurabi Law 234 (c. 1755–1750 BC) stipulated a 2-shekel prevailing wage for...
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    as stelae, for the entire public to see; this became known as the Codex Hammurabi. The most intact copy of these stelae was discovered in the 19th century...
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  • Dictionary". www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18. Wikisource.org. "Codex Hammurabi (King translation)". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 25 January 2020....
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    was written as MUNUS.TÚG (𒊩𒌆) in archaic cuneiform, notably in the Codex Hammurabi.[citation needed] The syllable nin, on the other hand, was written...
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    English translation of the Codex, based on Blume's, was published in October 2016. Byzantine law Roman law Code of Hammurabi Corpus Juris Canonici International...
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    Sumer. Samuel Noah Kramer, Círculo de lectores, 1975[page needed] Codex Hammurabi Laín Entralgo P: Historia de la Medicina. Salvat. Barcelona, 1982....
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    the Greek text. Frederick Barbarossa Basilika Byzantine law Code of Hammurabi Codex Repetitae Praelectionis Corpus Juris Canonici Henry de Bracton Dušan's...
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    Companies Act 1844 and the Joint Stock Companies Winding-Up Act 1844. See Codex Hammurabi §§115–118; Talmud, Kethuboth, x. 4, 93a.; Corpus Juris Civilis, Institutes...
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    other differences: Giesebrecht (1907), p. 41 and see p. 40, citing Codex Hammurabi, § 117. Lemche (1979), p. 20, n. 59 Pijper (1909), p. 676 and passim...
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  • fragment was later found at Me-Turan. The differences between the Code of Hammurabi and the Laws of Eshnunna significantly contributed to illuminating the...
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    than that earlier code, it paved the way for the famous later Code of Hammurabi. Lipit-Ishtar (r. 1934 – 1924 BCE (MC)) was the fifth king of the Dynasty...
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    box Bible case Bible paper Biblical software Christian theology Code of Hammurabi Family Bible (book) International Bible Contest List of major biblical...
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    well as a legal code written in his name (preceding the famed Code of Hammurabi by about 100 years)—which were used for school instruction for hundreds...
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  • known surviving civil code. Three centuries later, the Babylonian king Hammurabi enacted the set of laws named after him. Important codifications were...
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    the Code of Lipit-Ishtar (1934–1924 BC), and the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), are among the earliest and best preserved legal codes, originating...
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    have compared the hand of Saint John to a similar work by a pupil in the Codex Atlanticus, dating the commencement of the picture to around 1509. The pose...
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    codify their laws. The first statute that used this denomination was the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis of 1756 in Bavaria, still using the Latin...
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    "passive homosexual" childhood fantasy that Leonardo wrote about in the Codex Atlanticus, in which he recounts being attacked as an infant in his crib...
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    Near East during the reign of Yarim-Lim I, who formed an alliance with Hammurabi of Babylonia against Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria. Yamḥad was devastated...
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  • Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx King Menkaura and queen The Code of Hammurabi Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut Akhenaten...
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    better-known ancient law codes are the code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin, the code of Hammurabi of Babylonia, the Hittite code, the Assyrian code, and Mosaic law. In...
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  • certainty about the Yassa is weak compared to the much older Code of Hammurabi (18th century BCE) or the Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BCE). The latter...
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    Empire Codex Justinianus 10 Lycurgus fl. c. 820 BC Sparta Spartan Constitution 11 Hammurabi c. 1810 – 1750 BC Babylonian Empire Code of Hammurabi 12 Moses...
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  • rather than "tribes". The earliest and most famous example is Code of Hammurabi which set the different punishment and compensation, according to the...
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    figure in the traditions of Middle Eastern antiquity such as the code of Hammurabi or the Torah. However, it is recorded in the medieval Irish Brehon Laws...
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