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Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading

A Hammurabi year-name records war with Elam as a completed royal victory heading. The dated Elam war is not the Larsa conquest and not the end of Mari. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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A Hammurabi year-name records war with Elam as a completed royal victory heading. The dated Elam war is not the Larsa conquest and not the end of Mari. Hammurabi’s documented role is: A year-name commemorates smiting Elam. Scribes dated tablets; he waged; later ORACC is not the year-name. Elam is a different opponent. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: A year-name commemorates smiting Elam.

Context

An Elamite coalition, unnamed troops, and later tablet dates already sit in the file. A year-name is not a staff diary. Later ORACC is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed Babylonian troops, Elamite opponents, and later scribes of year-lists share the heading. The public setting is the file around -1764-01-01. The instrument stays Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading. The setting of Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading is the public file around -1764-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Complex later year-name carrier. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated year-name war put a public killing-heading into the south-Mesopotamian file, distinct from Larsa and Mari. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

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

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    A year-name commemorates smiting Elam. Scribes dated tablets; he waged; later ORACC is not the year-name.

What changed

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

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.ORACC — Hammurabi year names, ElamOpen Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

ORACC year names and Britannica independently mark an Elam war as distinct from Larsa and Mari. Official: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Elam (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, wars with Elam (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Elam (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, wars with Elam (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: an Elam year-name war heading. Established: a sourced public record of Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading under -1764-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Elam is a different opponent. Mixed effects of Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1764-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactYear names record war with Elam as a completed force heading
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-elam-year29

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-elam-year29

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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