Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 BCE Commentary by Charles F. Horne, (1915) Commentary by Claude Hermann Walter Johns, The Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th ed, 1910- Text, Translated by L. W. King Charles F. Horne: The Code of Hammurabi: Introduction was the ruler who chiefly established the greatness of Babylon, the world's first ...

Exploring Ancient World Cultures Readings from the Ancient Near East Hammurabi's Code of Laws Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his ...

The Code of Hammurabi Of the several law codes surviving from the ancient Middle East, the most famous after the Hebrew Torah is the Code of Hammurabi, sixth king of the Amorite Dynasty of Old Babylon. It is best known from a beautifully engraved diorite stela now in the Louvre Museum which also depicts the king receiving the law from Shamash, the god of justice. This copy was made long after ...

Ancient History | Ugarit | Arameans | Sign Guestbook | See Guestbook 2500 BC The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King With commentary from Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915) and The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910 by the Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, M.A. Litt.D. The Code of Hammurabi HAMMURABI'S CODE OF LAWS (circa 1780 B.C.) Translated by L. W. King When Anu the ...

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