Code of Hammurabi

The first great king of Babylon was King Ham Rabbi. He conquered all Mesopotamia and founded the first Babylonian empire. Hammurabi also enacted a law known today as Hammurabi Code.

Hammurabi Code is written on clay pieces and carved on stone. It is one of the oldest laws and regulations in the world. One of the most surviving examples in the code is written in "Silverstone"

The diorite is a big stone like a big finger. The height is about 7 feet and the width is 2 feet. It contains about 4,000 lines of text and describes 282 different laws. On a stone, or "fingertip" there is a statue of King Hammurabi given the law of Babylonian Sunshine · Shashashh.

Actual laws and regulations are divided into groups. Many laws on one subject (ie slavery) are summarized. This can help people find and read the laws associated with them. This is part of the main part of the code.

The preamble introduces the code. The preface describes how God Shamash gave Hamrabi the law

"Destroy correct control over the ground, destroy evil and evil, Do not harm the weak by doing strong, so I will rule and further promote the happiness of people You can enlighten the earth to do it. "

In conclusion, Hammurabi says, "Please let the suppressed man as king of justice take me to my image, he will understand what justice is and his heart will be happy."

Many laws accurately describe the income earned by workers. For example, the law stipulates that seafarers pay six meals a year.

When a construction worker builds a house for someone and the house collapses, the construction worker will be executed after killing it.

The code itself tells archaeologists a lot about the lives of Babylonian people. It also includes important ideas such as making people provide evidence of crime, being innocent until guilty, and protecting the vulnerable.

Shashash at the top of the diorite is the law of Babylon, the god of justice and redemption.

Diorite was originally discovered by archaeologists in Susa's ancient city. Today we can find it at the Louvre museum in Paris, France.

Eren Korkmaz 11.10.2013 Hammurabi code In the Hammurabi code, there is a general definition of most rules ("Look into the eyes") (Code 196). It tells us that Hamurabi's justice is being handled in a strict way. Is this fair? Can you accept that time? Should Babylonian society get it? Of course these questions can not be answered, but they should be discussed several times. This is because it is one of the rare ways to rule history. In the history of Babylon, that is, in the advertisement of the Hamrabi Code, you can see that the great god of the sun, Shamash, gave Hamrabi control. "In the front there is a relief indicating that King Hanabi accepts the law of the god of the sun, Moses will receive the story of the Lord's ten words." Therefore, he and his people I believe I have the power of God. Then he used the code to strengthen sense of justice. Finally, the third class is a complete slave

Code of Hammurabi: The first mention of thirteen unhappy things and evils with myths is in the Babylonian Babylonian code (around 1780 BC), the thirteenth rule is said to have been omitted. In fact, the original Hammurabi Code does not have numbers. King (1910) LW translation edited by Richard Hooker misses the article: if the seller has (his) fate (ie dead), the buyer will lose the property of the seller five times You should compensate. Others translation of Hammurabi Code including translation of Robert Francis Harper, including Article 13.