CLASSICS 2LW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Code Of Hammurabi, Codex Basilensis A. N. Iv. 2, Social Insurance
4 Apr 2018
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Propaganda piece to solidify his reign: gods, ruling elite (judges, officials, other kings, the oppressed/wronged man. Language of prologue and epilogue steeped in traditional royal ideology: the king of righteousness . Political ideology at the time is autonomous city states, but his reign is an exception. The nature of the text is descriptive rather than prescriptive. Assuming that the compilers of the code looked to the courts to compile it. Reflects the principles of law as it was already in practice. Key principles of the codex: status, household, inheritance, contracts, property, social insurance, torts, debts, procedure, distributive justice. Roughly organised into categories below: laws 1-5; false testimony, 6-25; theft, 26-41; labour on state owned land, 42-65; property, 100-126: enterprise, 127-194: family law and inheritance, 195-214: assault and battery, 215-282: liability. Penalties for barbers who remove this marks either intentionally or not. : famine" slaves- placed himself in volunteer slavery in a period of extreme food shortage.
