Code of hammurabi is a law promulgated by King Hammurabi of Babylon, and it is one of the earliest existing written codes. It has 282 legal provisions, including criminal law and laws on owning slaves, marriage and divorce, paying debts and paying wages.
Code of hammurabi has become an extremely important cultural relic for people to study the economic system and social legal system of ancient Babylon, and it is also a representative of ancient Babylonian art.
Code of hammurabi's Discovery Process
190 1 1 In February, an archaeological team composed of French and Iranians excavated the ruins of an ancient city named Susa in southwest Iran. One day, they found a black basalt, and a few days later, they found two more. They put three pieces together, which happened to be an oval cylindrical stone pillar.
The stone pillar is two and a half meters high, and it is carved with relief images of two people: one is sitting with a short stick in his right hand; The other stood with his hands arched, as if in the lower part of the worship column, engraved with words such as arrows or nails.
After textual research, this is the legal provision "code of hammurabi" recorded in cuneiform. The stone tablet consists of three black basalts, 2.25 meters high, with an upper circumference of 1.65 meters and a lower circumference of 1.90 meters ... The upper part of the stone tablet is a relief (0.65 meters high and 0.6 meters wide) awarded the title of King Hammurabi by the sun god and Chamak, the god of justice. Below the relief is a code inscription engraved around the stone tablet, with a total of 3500 lines. Cuneiform characters are written vertically.