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[nun] open a tavern,
or enter a tavern to
drink, then shall
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The harsh hammurabi code
- 1. The Harsh Hammurabi Code
- 2. Hammurabi Class Rules? • If you are called upon and don’t answer within 5 seconds… • If you are caught chatting when you should be participating… • Then… Then…….
- 3. I am the first King, and I set the laws in stone!! Why might a king set such harsh laws? What??
- 4. When??
- 5. Which??
- 6. Where do you think the statue now lives?
- 7. The stone may look smooth, but it is not!! These are the first (ever maybe) written laws.
- 8. Hammurabi was the first king of the Babylonian Empire, reigning from 1792 B.C. – 1750 B.C. During his time in power, he conquered Sumer and Akkad, amassing those cultures for his territory. The laws were strict and absolute. Hammurabi’s Code was carved into a large slab of stone of black basalt (known as a stela) and displayed publicly. Thus, no citizen or slave could claim he was not aware of a certain law or infraction. This stela, which stood 8 feet high, was discovered in 1901 in Elam (now SW Iran).
- 10. Sedimentary layered accumulations of sediments-fragments of rocks, minerals, or animal or plant material. Example: Sandstone Metamorphic Intense pressure transforms sed. rocks into denser, more compact rocks. Example: Marble Igneous formed from melted rock that has cooled and solidified. Does not weather easily. Example: Basalt
- 13. If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one break a man's bone, they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a freeman or break the bone of a freeman he shall pay one mana of silver. If one destroy the eye of a man's slave or break a bone of a man's slave he shall pay one-half his price. If a man knock out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth. If one knock out a tooth of a freeman, he shall pay one-third mana of silver.
- 14. If a son strike his father, they shall cut off his fingers.
- 15. If a 'sister of a god' [nun] open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
- 16. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
- 17. If any one steal cattle or sheep, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.
- 18. If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off. If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
- 19. If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.