Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila
Hammurabi’s public texts honour work for Marduk at Esagila in Babylon. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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Hammurabi’s public texts honour work for Marduk at Esagila in Babylon. The dated cult-heading is not the canal-labour row and not the Larsa conquest. Hammurabi’s documented role is: The prologue and building formulae honour Esagila and Babylon’s cult. Priesthoods staged; he claimed; later temple remains are not a unique autograph. A temple-cult claim is not a canal. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.
Context
A city-god priesthood, unnamed labour, and later Nebuchadnezzar rebuilds already sit in the file. A cult claim is not unique authorship of every later ziggurat. Later archaeology is access. Named others on the file: Marduk priesthood, unnamed labour, and later kings who rebuilt share the temple file. The public setting is the file around -1757-01-01. The instrument stays Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila. The setting of Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila is the public file around -1757-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A temple-cult claim is not a canal. Mixed effects of Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila are separate paths.
Why it matters
Medium confidence on unique masonry. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated Marduk-temple heading put public ancestor-city cult into the royal file, distinct from canal labour. 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 improving.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hammurabi
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
The prologue and building formulae honour Esagila and Babylon’s cult. Priesthoods staged; he claimed; later temple remains are not a unique autograph.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactYear names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1757 · verified
A dated Marduk-temple heading put public ancestor-city cult into the royal file, distinct from canal labour.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.ORACC — Hammurabi year names, ElamOpen Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and ORACC independently note Esagila/Marduk honouring in Hammurabi’s public texts. Official: Britannica — Hammurabi, Esagila and Babylon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: ORACC — Hammurabi, Babylon/Esagila formulae (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). 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: Britannica — Hammurabi, Esagila and Babylon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: ORACC — Hammurabi, Babylon/Esagila formulae (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus).
Established: Esagila honouring as a public heading. Not established: that later rebuilds are his masonry. Established: a sourced public record of Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila under -1757-01-01.
Shared responsibility is part of Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1757-01-01 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.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHammurabi
- contributed toFactYear names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-esagila
https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-esagila
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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