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The Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument

Dated 1 February 1755: The Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

The Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument

Sources: [1][2]

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Awilum/mushkenum/wardum as later translated. Status-graded harm. 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

Status-graded harm.

Who was responsible

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

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

What changed

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

    1. FactThe Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 February 1755 · verified

    Awilum/mushkenum/wardum as later translated.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Avalon Project — later English Code of HammurabiYale Law School · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Code of HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · 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 toFactThe Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). The Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-class-penalties

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-class-penalties

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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