Cast of the Laws of Hammurabi
1792 BC - 1750 BC
Plaster
Original Site Unknown
225 cm x 67 cm x 46 cm
Plaster
Original Site Unknown
225 cm x 67 cm x 46 cm
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Discussion Questions
Use the questions provided to guide your examination of the artifact.
Scholars consider the drafting of the laws of Hammurabi to be an important event in world history. Why do you think this is so?
Hammurabi's subjects were mostly illiterate. How do you think they would have known about the laws inscribed on this stela?
What do you think is the significance of the relief at the top of the stela?