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Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites.[1] The Code of Hammurabi is the best-known of the cuneiform laws, but there were a number of precursor laws.[1]

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Cuneiform law

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Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians...

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Laws of Eshnunna

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The Laws of Eshnunna (abrv. LE) are inscribed on two cuneiform tablets discovered in Tell Abū Harmal, Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities...

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Cuneiform

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contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Cuneiform is a...

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Code of Hammurabi

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lines of cuneiform text: One fifth contain a prologue and epilogue, while the remaining four fifths contain what are generally called the laws. Near the...

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List of ancient legal codes

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ancient Middle East. Many of them are examples of cuneiform law. The oldest evidence of a code of law was found at Ebla, in modern Syria (c. 2400 BC)....

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Code of law

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Code of Lipit-Ishtar | by Francis R. Steele, 1948". www.toaz.info. "Cuneiform law | legal body". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-05-26. Peters...

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List of cities of the ancient Near East

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Technology Medicine Assyria Assyriology Law Babylonia Astronomy Law Mathematics Hittites Hittitology Law Cuneiform Law Early Alphabet History of the Ancient...

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Fertile Crescent

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(January 1999). "On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 51: 1–16. doi:10.2307/1359726. JSTOR 1359726. S2CID 163985956...

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Covenant Code

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"What is the Covenant Code?" in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development, ed. B.M. Levinson (Sheffield:...

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Babylonian law

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Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study due to the large amount of archaeological material that has been found for...

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Outline of law

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law Federal law (National law) State law Local ordinance History of law Cuneiform law Babylonian law Ancient Greek law Roman law Early Germanic law Legal...

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Timeline of Middle Eastern history

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Mesopotamia, in the cities of Uruk and Susa (cuneiform writings) 3500 BC – first cities in Egypt 3300 BC – Earliest Cuneiform writings 3200 BC – Iry-Hor reigns as...

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History of the Middle East

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vehicular and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments and law codes, served as birthplace to the first city-states with their high degree...

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Genetic history of the Middle East

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Technology Medicine Assyria Assyriology Law Babylonia Astronomy Law Mathematics Hittites Hittitology Law Cuneiform Law Early Alphabet History of the Ancient...

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Sumerian literature

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portal Literature portal Akkadian literature Ancient Egyptian literature Cuneiform law Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Black et al. 2006, Introduction...

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Hammurabi

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Oshima, Takayoshi; Vukosavović, Filip (2012). "Hazor 18: Fragments of a Cuneiform Law Collection from Hazor". Israel Exploration Journal. 62 (2): 158–176...

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List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology

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include the Code of the Nesilim. Hittite laws, the Assyrian laws, and Mosaic Law / Ten Commandments. (see Cuneiform law). Tell al-Rimah stela (c. 780 BC) –...

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Luwian language

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these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic Luwian (HLuwian). There is no consensus...

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Ancient Near East

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The late Uruk period (3400 to 3200 BC) saw the gradual emergence of cuneiform script and corresponds to the early Bronze Age.[additional citation(s)...

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Marine insurance

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lines of cuneiform law dictated by Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC) of the First Babylonian Empire in the city of Shush, Iran. Code of Hammurabi Law 100 stipulated...

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Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal

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cultural property law retained by Hobby Lobby warned the company that the acquisition of cultural property likely from Iraq, including cuneiform tablets and...

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Hittites

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Hittite laws, much like other records of the empire, are recorded on cuneiform tablets made from baked clay. What is understood to be the Hittite Law Code...

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History of writing

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assuming that writing had originated in only one location—namely, with cuneiform in ancient Sumer—from which it spread across the world via cultural diffusion...

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History of insurance

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lines of cuneiform law dictated by Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC) of the First Babylonian Empire in the city of Shush, Iran. Code of Hammurabi Law 100 stipulated...

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Tel Hazor

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18: Fragments of a Cuneiform Law Collection from Hazor.", Israel Exploration Journal 62, pp. 158–76, 2012 Vukosavović, Filip. "THE LAWS OF HAZOR AND THE...

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Akkadian language

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century BC. It is the earliest documented Semitic language. It used the cuneiform script, which was a script used to write multiple languages including...

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