c. 1750 BC
Hammurabi law stele
World history · Politics · Culture
The Babylonian stele, inscribed around 1750 BCE, gathered judicial decisions and is not equivalent to a modern legal code. It is an exceptional record of how royal authority formulated and publicized jurisprudence.
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
- www.louvre.fr (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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