c. 2100 BCE
Ur-Namma law collection
Law & constitutions · Codificación y procedimientos
Tablets attributed to Ur-Namma’s reign preserve one of the earliest known Sumerian law collections. They combine conditional formulas and penalties; their fragmentary preservation does not show an exhaustive code or uniform application across Ur’s kingdom.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- isac.uchicago.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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