Plaster Cast Of Hammurabi Stele
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: E F. Arrondelle
notes: label: Notes
content: Plaster cast of basalt stele with Law Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. Original is at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon . Original was carved from a single, four-ton slab of basalt. It was erected by King Hammurabi of Babylon (reigning from 1792–1750 BC) probably at Sippar, city of the sun god Shamash, god of justice. At its top is a two-and-a-half-foot relief carving of a standing Hammurabi receiving the law - symbolized by a measuring rod and tape - from the seated Shamash. The rest of the seven-foot-five-inch monument is covered with columns of chiseled cuneiform script in the Akkadian language.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Iraq (Babylonia), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042435
label: USNM Number
content: A229758-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast