The Hammurabi code and the Sinaitic legislation / with a complete translation of the great Babylonian inscription discovered at Susa, by Chilperic Edwards.

  • Hammurabi, King of Babylonia.
Date:
1904
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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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    construction of a canal. But a few years ago the diggers in the mounds of Senkereh, which now cover the site of Larsam, came across a large collection of tablets, that are now pre- served partly at Constantinople and partly at the British Museum, the latter collection having been published by Dr. L. W. King. These tablets comprised the letters which Sin- iddinam had received from Hammurabi. Evidently, after the overthrow of Rim-Sin, Hammurabi had set up Sin-iddinam as a vassal-king in Larsam ; and the correspon- dence indicates the complete subordination of the latter. Sin-iddinam’s territory included Larsam, Ur, and several other cities; and his official title is given in one of the documents as Gal Martu—that is, “Governor of Martu.”1 This ought to settle the long controversy as to the exact locality of Martu, which is thus proved to be South-western Babylonia. After a reign of forty-three years Hammu- rabi died, and left his dominions to his son Samsu-iluna. Whatever more we may learn of his history in years to come, his greatest monument will ever be the Code of Laws which has been so 1 King-, Letters of Hamtnurabi, vol. Hi., p. 169.