Its epilogue declares that any future leader who undermines the authority of this document shall be cursed by the Anunaki, while others who uphold it and its tenets, such as "an eye for an eye," will be granted long life by Shamash.
It was featured on a relic that was seized as spoil of war by Shutruk- Nahhunte after his sack of Sippar and later excavated in 1902 by Jacques de Morgan. Classifying its nation's population between the aristocratic amelu, the middle class muskinu and the ardu, or slaves, it is now missing its thirteenth section, as well as the entirety of sections 66 through 99, though it once contained 282 sections. Its epilogue declares that any future leader who undermines the authority of this document shall be cursed by the Anunaki, while others who uphold it and its tenets, such as "an eye for an eye," will be granted long life by Shamash. FTP, identify this ancient set of laws issued by and named for a Babylonian king.
It was featured on a relic that was seized as spoil of war by Shutruk- Nahhunte after his sack of Sippar and later excavated in 1902 by Jacques de Morgan.
{Code of Hammurabi}