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Year names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings

Dated 1 January 1760: Year names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

Sources: [1][2]

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Royal building as commanded work. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).

Why it matters

Royal building as commanded work.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactYear names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings
    2. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1760 · verified

    Royal building as commanded work.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.ARCHIBAB — Old Babylonian letters and year namesARCHIBAB · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Cambridge Ancient History — later Roman / Hun chaptersCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactYear names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings
  3. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Year names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-canal-labour

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-canal-labour

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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