Transcribed from the 1903 T. & T. Clark edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE OLDEST CODE OF LAWS IN THE WORLD
THE CODE OF LAWS PROMULGATED BY
HAMMURABI, KING OF BABYLON
b.c. 2285-2242
TRANSLATED
by
C. H. W. JOHNS, M.A.
LECTURER IN ASSYRIOLOGY, QUEENS’ COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
author of “assyrian deeds and documents”
“an assyrian doomsday book”
EDINBURGH
T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET
1903
PRINTED BY
MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED