Open Educational Resources for the Ancient Near East Laws of Hammurabi

Open Educational Resources for the Ancient Near East Laws of Hammurabi

Contributors

Martha T. Roth, translator/editor

Keywords

law, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Hammurabi

Abstract

Critical translation of the Laws of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BCE

Description

Critical translation of the Laws of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BCE. Translation of the Codex Hammurabi (the Code of Hammurabi) by Martha Roth, the Chauncey S. Boucher Distinguished Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Document Type

Primary Sources/Text Translation Projects

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

STARS Citation

Roth, Martha T., "Laws of Hammurabi" (2022). Open Educational Resources for the Ancient Near East. 134.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ancientneareast/134