# Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end

Date: 1765

## The fact

Mari’s palace letters show [Hammurabi](/people/hammurabi) as Zimri-Lim’s correspondent and ally before Babylon ended Mari. The dated diplomatic file is not the destruction heading and not the Code. Hammurabi’s documented role is: Zimri-Lim’s archive records alliance, delay, and then betrayal-talk. Mari scribes wrote; he corresponded; the later destruction of Mari remains a different row. Do not twin this with ham-mari-end. Letters of alliance are not the destruction year-name. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: Zimri-Lim’s archive records alliance, delay, and then betrayal-talk. Mari scribes wrote; he corresponded; the later destruction of Mari remains a different row.

## Context

A palace archive, unnamed envoys, and later betrayal already sit in the letters. Alliance-talk is not unique authorship of every later siege. Later Louvre/Syrian excavation is access. Named others on the file: Zimri-Lim, unnamed Mari envoys, and later excavators as access share the file. The public setting is the file around -1765-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end. The setting of Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end is the public file around -1765-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently distinguishes Hammurabi’s Mari correspondence from the later destruction heading. Official: Louvre — Mari archives as later public file (https://www.louvre.fr/en; Musée du Louvre). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, relations with Mari (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; 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: Louvre — Mari archives as later public file (https://www.louvre.fr/en; Musée du Louvre). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, relations with Mari (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Louvre — Mari archives as later public file (https://www.louvre.fr/en; Musée du Louvre).

## Significance

Worsening institutional-corruption path: alliance-diplomacy that precedes takeover. Complex later archive. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated diplomatic file put public alliance-then-takeover into the Middle Euphrates, distinct from the ‘end of Mari’ destruction heading. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with ham-mari-end. Letters of alliance are not the destruction year-name. Mixed effects of Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Mari letters as an alliance-then-end file. Not established: that the destruction year-name is this same letter. Established: a sourced public record of Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end under -1765-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end under -1765-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1765-01-01 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi
- https://www.louvre.fr/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-mari-letters-alliance