The Code of Hammurabi. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791222456379

The Code of Hammurabi. E-book. Formato EPUB. <b>The Code of Hammurabi </b>is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755&ndash;1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by<b> Hammurabi</b>, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on a basalt stele 2.25 m (7 ft 4+1&frasl;2 in) tall.<br /><br />The stele was rediscovered in 1901 at the site of <b>Susa</b> in present-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder six hundred years after its creation. The text itself was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the <b>Louvre Museum</b>.<br /><br /><b>Leonard William King&nbsp;</b>(8 December 1869 &ndash; 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist educated at Rugby School and King&#39;s College, Cambridge. He collected stone inscriptions widely in the Near East, taught Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at King&#39;s College for a number of years, and published a large number of works on these subjects. He is also known for his translations of ancient works such as the <b>Code of Hammurabi</b>. He became Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the <b>British Museum</b>.