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Complete English translation with a running parallel
transliteration of the original ideograms of The Code of Hammurabi,
the longest surviving legal text from the Old Babylonian period The
Code of Hammurabi is a collection of laws proscribed by Hammurabi,
the sixth King of the First Dynasty of Babylon, and reigned from
approximately 1792 BC to 1750 BC. These were inscribed on cuneiform
tablets towards the end of his reign and discovered on the
acropolis of Susa in 1901 by the Egyptologist Gustav Jequier. The
code consists of 282 case laws carved in forty-nine columns on a
basalt stele. The code encompasses commercial, criminal and civil
law. This edition contains a complete English translation of the
code with a running parallel transliteration of the original
ideograms. All corrections and erasures are included. This edition
also includes facsimiles of all of the original cuneiform tablets,
a thorough glossary and index of subjects, lists of proper names
and tables of weights and currencies. Robert Francis Harper
1864-1914] was Professor of the Semitic Languages and Literatures
in the University of Chicago, Director of the Babylonian Section of
the Oriental Exploration Fund of the University of Chicago,
Managing Editor of The American Journal of Semitic Languages and
Literatures, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. CONTENTS
Frontispiece Preface Introduction Transliteration and Translation
Index of Subjects List of Proper Names Glossary Photograph of Text
Autographed Text List of Signs List of Numerals List of Scribal
Errors List of Erasures Map of Babylonia
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