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Because they did not have paper. Or:

They did not use paper, that is true, they did however have a form of clay tablet they used like paper.

However the Code of Hammurabi was intentionally carved in stone for the fact that it could not (should not) be changed; quoting the original text itself "let him not alter the law of the land which I have given .... my monument let him not mar." It was the intention of carving these words into stone so they could not be changed later.

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