Hammurabi
Sixth king of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 BCE) · Historical Figures · Lived 1810 BC to 1750 BC · aged 60
Hammurabi is read about 1,856 times a day, in 113 languages.
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Something wrong?He conquered Mesopotamia in the 18th century BC, but what keeps his name in circulation is the law code - one of the first to flip the script from compensating victims to punishing perpetrators, and to bake in presumption of innocence.
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Babel and Bible; (1906) (14579765298)
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Briefe König Hammurapis (2123-2081 v. Chr.), nebst sinem einleitenden Überblick über die Geschichte und Kultur seiner Zeit und einem Anhang, Briefe anderer altbabylonischer Herrscher (1919) (14576489278)
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Clay cone Sippar Louvre AO3277In their own words 3
, Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land.
If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established.
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Hammurabi took the throne of Babylon around 1792 BC after his father abdicated, then spent his reign swallowing city-states: Larsa, Eshnunna, Mari. He broke Assyria's king and forced his son into tribute, pulling nearly all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian control. The law code he issued - framed as a revelation from Shamash, god of justice - prescribed specific penalties for each crime and capped what victims could claim in retribution, a break from earlier Sumerian codes. He was worshipped as a god while alive, celebrated after death as the conqueror who spread civilization and made the world bow to Marduk. His military wins faded from memory, but the lawgiver stuck: later kings claimed him as ancestor, and even after his empire crumbled, Mesopotamians used his reign as the zero-point for dating the past. Archaeologists pulled him back into view in the late 19th century, and he's been lodged in the history of law ever since.
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