Laws of Ur-Nammu
The oldest surviving law collection, about three centuries older than Hammurabi's, mostly setting fines in silver.
WorkAlso known as Code of Ur-Nammu
- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q705693
Relations
- discovered by:
Identified and translated the first copy, from Nippur, in 1952.
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- written by:
The prologue names Ur-Nammu; some scholars give the laws to Shulgi.
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