The Code of Hammurabi (Annotated)

The Code of Hammurabi is one of antiquity's most consequential legal monuments, a carefully organized collection of royal judgments addressing property, commerce, family relations, labor, injury, debt, and social hierarchy in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Written in formal Akkadian and framed by a majestic prologue and epilogue, it combines juridical precision with royal ideology, presenting law as ...