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 TextUniversity of Chicago Press, Callaghan, 1904 - 192 pages |
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a-bi-šu a-bu a-bu-um a-di a-na be-el a-na bit a-na kaspim a-na mârê a-na mâri-šu a-na ši-im-tim a-wi-lam šu-a-ti a-wi-lum šu-u Adad alpam ar-nam aš-ša-tam aš-šum ba-lum be-el eklim be-li-šu BÊLU bik-ta-bi bitam bitim bša CODE OF HAMMURABI COLUMN daughter dowry êkallim eklam Eridu Esagila father father's house female slave field FRANCIS HARPER freeman give GUR of grain Hammurabi hire husband i-gur i-li-ki i-lim i-na ab-lu-tim i-na bît i-na ŠA.GA i-ša-kal id-da-ak id-di-in-ma iš-ta-ka-an iš-tu it-ta-al-ku it-ta-la-ak it-ti kaspim ki-ma king kirêm Larsa lu warad ma-la ma-na ma-tim maid servant mâr Marduk mârê mârê-ša me-e merchant mi-im-ma mu-za Nergal ni-ši ni-ši-šu Nippur owner put to death rid şâbê ša i-na ša-ni-im Šamaš šar še-ri-ik-ta-ša še-ri-ik-tam ŠE.GUR še'am še'im SEMITIC LANGUAGES şênê Shamash shekels shekels of silver ši-bi šikil kaspim Sippar šum šum-ma a-wi-lum take a wife temple u-ta-ar u-ul Uruk wa-ar wa-ar-ka wa-ar-ka-za woman XXXIII zinništum ši-i
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Page 65 - If a builder build a house for a man and do not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapse and cause the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.
Page vii - Hammurabi, the exalted prince, the worshipper of the gods, to cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak, to go forth like the Sun over the Black-Head Race, to enlighten the land and to further the welfare of the people.
Page 39 - If a woman hate her husband, and say: "Thou shalt not have me," they shall inquire into her antecedents for her defects, and if she have been a careful mistress and be without reproach, and her husband have been going about and greatly belittling her, that woman has no blameShe shall receive her dowry and shall go to her father's house.
Page 13 - ... #42 If a man rent a field for cultivation and do not produce any grain in the field, they shall call him to account, because he has not performed the work required on the field, and he shall give to the owner of the field on the basis of the adjacent (fields).
Page 75 - ... oppressed man who has a cause, come before my image as king of righteousness! Let him read the inscription on my monument! let him give heed to my weighty words! And may my monument enlighten him as to his cause, and may he understand his case! May he set his heart at ease (saying): Hammurabi indeed is a ruler who is like a real father to his people ... he has established prosperity for his people for all time and given a pure government to the land.
Page 75 - Let any oppressed man, who has a cause, come before my image as king of righteousness! Let him read the inscription on my monument! Let him give heed to my weighty words! And may my monument enlighten him as to his cause and may he understand his case!
Page 61 - If a physician operate on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and cause the man's death; or open an abscess (in the eye) of a man with a bronze lancet and destroy the man's eye, they shall cut off his fingers.
Page 77 - If that man do not pay attention to my words which I have written upon my monument; if he forget my curse and do not fear the curse of god; if he abolish the...
Page 63 - If he open an abscess (in his eye) with a bronze lancet, and destroy his eye, he shall pay silver to the extent of one-half of his price. §221. If a physician set a broken bone for a man or cure his diseased bowels, the patient shall give five shekels of silver to the physician.
Page 5 - If a man seize a male or female slave, a fugitive, in the field and bring that (slave) back to his owner, the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver.