Assertion: eunuch | /r/HasProperty | castration
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text: Taylor).34 The fact that the Code of Hammurabi refers to eunuchs and to castration as a form of punishment suggests that eunuchs were already by then a widespread phenomena and castration an ancient custom (Scholz).35 The earliest eunuchs known by name in Assyria are Usur-namkur-sharri and Libur-zanin-Ashshur, from the thirteenth century BC.