The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C : autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections and erasures, with map, frontispiece and photograph of text / by Robert Francis Harper.
- Hammurabi
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C : autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections and erasures, with map, frontispiece and photograph of text / by Robert Francis Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![exception of a few words, e. i/., summa, la, ul, in a, ana, awiluui, etc., it has been my aim to register every occurrence of every form found in the Code. The List of Signs and Numerals was finished about November first, 1903, before the appearance of Ungnad’s article, “Zur Syntax der Gesetze Hammurabis,” in the November (XVII, -I) number of ZA. The values of No. 84, ku, kum, kum {cf. Jensen, KB, III, pp. Ill, 113 and Hunger, Becherimhrsagtinij hei den Bahylouiern, p. 7), No. 137, sa, za. No. 148, ud, ut, tarn. No. 194, su, zum {cf. Hunger, p. 7) had already been listed. I have, however, accepted two of Ungnad’s suggestions, viz., the reading wardu, instead of ardu, on account of the occurrence of wardutu; and the substitution of ar for ri in 11, 34, cf. the List of Scribal Errors. The values mas and bar are usually distinguished in the Code, cf. No. 34, and hence the reading E.UL.MAS is to be preferred to E.UL.BAR. For the reading E.MIS.MIS instead of E.DUP.DUP, cf. Nos. 65 and 66. Note the two forms of E listed in No. 121. The sign under No. 121, which has not been explained hitherto, has been made a gnnn of No. 148, cf. List of Scribal Errors, 36, 89. In No. 142, SE.ZIR may be read ziru and SA.GAL in No. 150 ukullu. In No. 35 NU.TUE, as is well known, has the value labuttu ; NU.IS.SAR has been read amelu urku (Delitzsch), zikaru-kiru (Langdon), etc.; NU. TUK has the value ekutu. These values will be noticed in the Glossary. No. 80 has been read incorrectly hitherto. It occurs twice and has the value seru, flesh, 37, 32 and siru. oracle. 43, 27. In List II, 180 KA seems too large a number for the last sign. This is the usual reading, but 90 KA would suit the con- text better in the law in which it occurs. Compare §§271 and 272: If a man hire oxen, a wagon, and a driver, he shall pay 180 KA of grain per day; If a man hire a wagon only, he shall pay 40 KA of grain per day. In § 268, we have : If a man hire an ox to thresh, 20 KA of grain is its hire. Lists III and IV are of necessity incomplete. One could easily be tempted to add other exam])les to those listed. The reading uh-tab-| bi |-it instead of uh-tab-ila in two places](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2899145x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
