It prohibits the adopted sons of prostitutes from questioning their paternity, and another section orders that innocent women accused of adultery should throw themselves into a river.
It was originally known as the dinat mi?arim and discusses pay rates in gurs of corn. It prohibits the adopted sons of prostitutes from questioning their paternity, and another section orders that innocent women accused of adultery should throw themselves into a river. Most of its contents have separate provisions for the awilum, mu?kenum, and wardum classes, but it is united by the principle of lex talionis. Jean-Vincent Scheil discovered most of it at Susa in 1901, on a stela which also depicts its namesake on the Shamash throne and is written in cuneiform. Noting that striking one's father is punishable by the loss of a hand, and that eyes and teeth are to be exchanged on an equal basis, it replaced the Laws of Eshunna and the Code of Lipit-Ishtar. FTP, name this document first promulgated around 1750 BCE by the fifth Amorite king of Babylon.
It was originally known as the dinat mi?arim and discusses pay rates in gurs of corn.
Hammurabi's Code [accept clear equivalents; accept the literal translation of "dinat mi?arim, Verdicts of the Just Order]