Object Details
- Donor Name
- E F. Arrondelle
- Plaster cast of basalt stele with Law Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. Original is at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon . Original was carved from a single, four-ton slab of basalt. It was erected by King Hammurabi of Babylon (reigning from 1792–1750 BC) probably at Sippar, city of the sun god Shamash, god of justice. At its top is a two-and-a-half-foot relief carving of a standing Hammurabi receiving the law - symbolized by a measuring rod and tape - from the seated Shamash. The rest of the seven-foot-five-inch monument is covered with columns of chiseled cuneiform script in the Akkadian language.
- Record Last Modified
- 10 Dec 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Date
- 1904
- Accession Number
- 042435
- USNM Number
- A229758-0
- Object Type
- Cast
- Place
- Iraq (Babylonia), Asia
- See more items in
- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8056800
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3400167bc-c50a-4c89-ba3e-5514f26fd9bf
