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The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are about 4,130 lines of cuneiform text: one fifth contains a prologue and epilogue in poetic style, while the remaining four fifths contain what are generally called the laws.
A carving at the top of the stele portrays Hammurabi receiving the laws from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice, [32] and the preface states that Hammurabi was chosen by Shamash to bring the laws to the people. [33] Because of Hammurabi's reputation as a lawgiver, his depiction can be found in law buildings throughout the world.
One well known example of such an image is a stele of Hammurabi of Babylon, inscribed with his legal code. [50] Anna Kurmangaliev points out that only a single depiction of the sun god in anthropomorphic form has been identified among works of art from Babylonia from the first millennium BCE, the so-called Sun God Tablet. [50]
Dialogue between a Man and His God: 1.179 "Man and his God" 589–591: Man and His God: Autobiography of Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet: 2.1: The Tomb Biography of Ahmose of Nekheb: 233–234: The Expulsion of the Hyksos: 2.2A: The Annals of Thutmose III: 234B–238: The Annals in Karnak: 2.2B: The Gebel Barkal Stela of Thutmose III: 238C, 240D-C: The ...
There are also judges who represent the monarch himself. Code of Hammurabi: it is the most representative of all Ancient history and is the most important legal corpus of almost all antiquity. It is preserved in a stone stele 2.5 meters high and replicas are preserved in cities far from Babylon. It has 282 paragraphs and it is supposed that the ...
Hammurabi holds his hands over his mouth as a sign of prayer [96] (relief on the upper part of the stele of Hammurabi's code of laws). Detail of a limestone votive monument from Sippar, Iraq, dating to c. 1792 – c. 1750 BC showing King Hammurabi raising his right arm in worship, now held in the British Museum
The best known example of the symbol is seen on the Code of Hammurabi stela. The symbol is also illustrated in the "Investiture Scene" painted at the palace of Mari. [4] The most elaborate depiction is found on the Ur-Nammu-stela, where the winding of the cords has been detailed by the sculptor.
Shutruk-Nakhunte added his own inscription on the stele of Naram-Sin: Inscription of Shutruk-Nahhunte in Elamite on the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin . "I am Shutruk-Nahhunte, son of Hallutush-Inshushinak, beloved servant of the god Inshushinak , king of Anshan and Susa, who has enlarged the kingdom, who takes care of the lands of Elam, the lord ...