yes. his code was based on an eye for and eye or a tooth for a tooth. that means what ever you do will be done back to you. Here are a few of the laws.
15: If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates [to escape], he shall be put to death.
16: If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the [police], the master of the house shall be put to death.
109: If conspirators meet in the house of a [woman wine-seller], and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the [wine-seller] shall be put to death.
110: If a "sister of a god"[nun] open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
196: If a [noble-]man put out the eye of another [noble-]man, his eye shall be put out. (5)
197: If he break another [noble-]man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
200: If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
BTW: I answered this all by myself. ( selgomezfan912 ) the other answer was : yes mrs. clark. ( the 1st person: ID.......)
Cuneiform was the written language of the Sumerians.
If Sumerian is considered to be cuneiform, yes.
clay.
The invention of cuneiform is that before cuneiform was invention their was not a written language and with out a written language people couldn't write letters to their friends or family members in prison or out of town so that's why cuneiform is so important to people.
ANSWERHammurabi spoke Akkadian and wrote in the emerging written text of cuneiform. Cuneiform started as a pictograph, a symbolic way to record trades and stories. Then over a few thousand years, it developed into straight marks and wedge shapes that represent phonetic sounds. The latter being a much quicker way to write, as the symbols for objects run into the thousands and sounds can be reduced to a few hundred strokes.
If I understand the question right, there is three things things I could write about the code. 1. It was written in cuneiform. 2. The stone is nine feet high. 3. It contains 282 rules or amendments.
cuneiform
cuneiform
hammurabis code was the first first written code of laws in the history of the world.
Kingdom of Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia
It is the first written body of laws used to organize society.
It is the first written body of laws used to organize society.
Hammurabi code
The code was written on a 7 feet tall black diorite stone with a finger shape.
No, the word "code" in this usage refers to a written set of rules and regulations, not any reference to secret codes.
Historians found it to be just.
King Hammurabi