The Code of Hammurabi

English-language translations of
The Code of Hammurabi (1752 BCE)
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The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating to ca. 1700 BC (short chronology). The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a human-sized stone stele and various clay tablets.Warning: template has been deprecated.

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English-language translations of The Code of Hammurabi include:

The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia, as translated in 1903 by H. Otto Sommer
The Code of Hammurabi (Harper translation), as translated in 1904 by Robert Francis Harper
Codex Hammurabi (King translation), as translated in 1910 by Leonard William King
Codex Hammurabi, transliteration column from Hammurabi's Gesetz by J. von Kohler and A. Ungnad