The Hammurabi code and the Sinaitic legislation / with a complete translation of the great Babylonian inscription discovered at Susa, by Chilperic Edwards.
- Hammurabi
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Hammurabi code and the Sinaitic legislation / with a complete translation of the great Babylonian inscription discovered at Susa, by Chilperic Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the people, who has restored its tutelary deity to Assur. The crusher of enemies, who has glorified the name of Nanna [Ishtar] in Nineveh in E Dupdup. The exalted one, who humbles himself before the great gods, the descendant of Sumula-ilu, the mighty son of Sin-muballit, the eternal scion of royalty, the powerful king, the sun of Babylon, beaming light over Sumir and Akkad, the king who is obeyed in the four quarters, the darling of Nanna am I. When Merodach had instituted me governor of men, to conduct and to direct, Right and Justice I established in the land, for the good of the people. 1. If a man has laid a curse upon another man, and it is not justified, the layer of the curse shall be slain. 2. If a man has thrown a spell upon another man, and it is not justified, he who has suffered the spell shall proceed to the holy river: into the holy river shall he plunge. If the holy river seize him, the layer of the spell shall take his house. If the holy river holds him guiltless, and he](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28996318_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
