Hammurabi
c. 1792 BCE · Babylon
Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, ruling c. 1792–1750 BCE (Middle Chronology), who over a long reign transformed Babylon from a modest city-state into the dominant power of southern Mesopotamia, defeating Larsa, Mari, and Ešnunna. He is best known for the Laws of Hammurabi, a long collection of casuistic rulings framed by a prologue and epilogue in which the king, commissioned by the gods, declares that he has established justice and protected the weak; the stele depicts him receiving his commission from the sun-god Šamaš.
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The great city on the Euphrates that gave its name to Babylonia, capital under Hammurabi and again under the Neo-Babylonian kings. The pin marks the findspot of the excavated tablet.
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