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The stele was found in three large fragments and reconstructed. [17] It is 225 cm (7 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) high, with a circumference is 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) at the summit and 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) at the base. [17] Hammurabi's image is 65 cm (2 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) high and 60 cm (1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide. [17]
A carving at the top of the stele portrays Hammurabi receiving the laws from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice, [32] and the preface states that Hammurabi was chosen by Shamash to bring the laws to the people. [33] Because of Hammurabi's reputation as a lawgiver, his depiction can be found in law buildings throughout the world.
Shutruk-Nakhkhunte raided Babylonia, carrying home to Susa trophies like the statues of Marduk and Manishtushu, the Manishtushu Obelisk, the Stele of Hammurabi and the stele of Naram-Sin. [1] With these trophies, he attempted to give a new aura to Elam, as the conqueror of Babylonia. [1]
Code of Hammurabi: it is the most representative of all Ancient history and is the most important legal corpus of almost all antiquity. It is preserved in a stone stele 2.5 meters high and replicas are preserved in cities far from Babylon. It has 282 paragraphs and it is supposed that the writers of the code belonged to a royal chancellery and ...
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a stele that dates to approximately 2254–2218 BC, in the time of the Akkadian Empire, and is now at the Louvre in Paris. The relief measures 2 meters in height (6' 7") [ 1 ] and was carved in pinkish sandstone, [ 2 ] with cuneiform writings in Akkadian and Elamite .
During Hammurabi's thirtieth year as king, he conquered Larsa from Rim-Sin I, thus, gaining control over the lucrative urban centers of Nippur, Ur, Uruk, and Isin. Hammurabi was one of the most notable kings of the first Babylonian dynasty because of his success in gaining control over Southern Mesopotamia and establishing Babylon as the center ...
In his 38th year name, Hammurabi would claim to have destroyed Eshnunna with a flood. [94] In the Code of Hammurabi, the king states that he was the pious prince who brightened Tishpak’s face, which Charpin links to the ideology of the kings of Eshnunna, indicating that Hammurabi was presenting himself as the rightful king of Eshnunna. [20]
The city was later defeated by Hammurabi of Babylon in the 39th year of his reign with his year name reading "Year in which Hammu-rabi the king with the great power given to him by An and Enlil smote the totality of Cutha and the land of Subartu". [15] The 40th year name of Hammurabi mentions the Emeslam temple at Kutha. [16]