Code of Hammurabi — The First Written Law | Heritage Metal Sign

282 laws carved on an 8-foot black diorite stele in 1754 BCE — covering commerce, property, family, crime, and the radical principle that law applies equally to everyone within each class. Hammurabi is at the top of the stele, receiving the laws from Shamash the sun god directly. It is now in the Louvre. The black diorite stele, the sun disc of Shamash, the cuneiform inscription — the law that preceded Moses by five hundred years, in permanent aluminum.

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