Hammurabi

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Babylonian king historical figure king monarch

Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon, best known for creating one of the earliest and most influential written legal codes in ancient Mesopotamia.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Hammurabi canonical	14
Hammurabi of Babylon	5
Babylonian king Hammurabi	1
Hammurabi (as ruler of Larsa)	1
Hammurabi of Babylon (as conqueror of Mari)	1
Hammurabi of Babylon (initially)	1
Hammurabi of Babylon (later adversary)	1
Hammurapi	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Babylonian king ⓘ historical figure ⓘ king ⓘ monarch ⓘ
approximateBirthCentury	18th century BCE ⓘ
approximateDeathCentury	18th century BCE ⓘ
capital	Babylon ⓘ
civilization	Mesopotamia ⓘ
claimedAuthorityFrom	Shamash ⓘ
culture	Babylonian ⓘ
depictedWithDeity	Shamash ⓘ
dynasty	Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: First Babylonian Dynasty
era	Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: Old Babylonian period
expandedInto	Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: Akkad Assyria ⓘ Larsa ⓘ Mari ⓘ
influenced	later Near Eastern legal traditions ⓘ study of ancient law ⓘ
knownFor	Code of Hammurabi ⓘ centralization of power in Babylon ⓘ expansion of the Babylonian Empire ⓘ
language	Akkadian ⓘ
legalCode	Code of Hammurabi ⓘ
legalCodeFocus	civil law ⓘ commercial law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ family law ⓘ
legalCodeLanguage	Akkadian ⓘ
legalCodeMedium	diorite stele ⓘ
legalCodeNumberOfLaws	282 ⓘ
legalCodePrinciple	lex talionis ⓘ retributive justice ⓘ
legalCodeScript	cuneiform ⓘ
majorArtifact	stele of the Code of Hammurabi ⓘ
majorArtifactLocation	Louvre Museum ⓘ
name	Hammurabi self-link ⓘ
notableAchievement	standardization of laws across his empire ⓘ unification of much of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule ⓘ
positionHeld	King of Babylon ⓘ
predecessor	Sin-Muballit ⓘ
region	Ancient Near East ⓘ
reignEnd	c. 1750 BCE ⓘ
reignStart	c. 1792 BCE ⓘ
religion	Mesopotamian polytheism ⓘ
sourceType	cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ
successor	Samsu-iluna ⓘ
territoryRuled	Babylon ⓘ surface form: Babylonia Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: southern Mesopotamia

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Babylon → associatedWithRuler → Hammurabi ⓘ

Code of Hammurabi → author → Hammurabi ⓘ

Code of Hammurabi → creator → Hammurabi ⓘ

Code of Hammurabi → reignOf → Hammurabi ⓘ

Ashur → conqueredBy → Hammurabi ⓘ

this entity surface form: Babylonian king Hammurabi

Amorites → notableRuler → Hammurabi ⓘ

Babylonians → notableRuler → Hammurabi ⓘ

Hammurabi → name → Hammurabi self-link ⓘ

Old Babylonian Empire → peakUnder → Hammurabi ⓘ

Old Babylonian Empire → majorRuler → Hammurabi ⓘ

Larsa → conqueredBy → Hammurabi ⓘ