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Uploaded ImageThe diorite stele ("Law code") of the Middle Bronze Age king of Babylon, Hammurapi, found at Susa (taken as booty by the Elamites). Here is a translation, and another.

"In sum, it may be inferred that Hammurabi never intended that his rules be accorded the status of parctical law" (Yoffee 2005: 107).
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