# Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila

Date: 1757

## The fact

[Hammurabi](/people/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. Do not twin this with canal year-names. A temple-cult claim is not a canal. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. 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.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/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. Do not twin this with canal year-names. 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.

## Evidence and sources

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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: ORACC — Hammurabi, Babylon/Esagila formulae (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: ORACC — Hammurabi, Babylon/Esagila formulae (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Hammurabi, Esagila and Babylon (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving social-cohesion path: public city-god temple honouring. 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.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

## People

- Hammurabi: https://factrail.ai/people/hammurabi

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-esagila