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Hammurabi, limestone relief; in the British Museum
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Hammurabi

king of Babylonia
Also known as: Hammurapi
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Johannes M. Renger
Professor of Assyriology, Free University of Berlin.
Johannes M. Renger
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Hammurabi (born, Babylon [now in Iraq]—died c. 1750 bce) was the sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st (Amorite) dynasty of Babylon (reigning c. 1792–1750 bce), noted for his surviving set of laws, once considered the oldest promulgation of laws in human history. See Hammurabi, Code of. Like all the kings of his dynasty except his father and grandfather, Hammurabi bore a tribal Amorite name belonging to the Amnanum. Only scanty information exists about his...

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