# Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works

Date: 1756

## The fact

[Hammurabi](/people/hammurabi) year-names record the walls of Sippar as a completed royal work. The dated fortification heading is not the canal-labour row and not the Code stele. Hammurabi’s documented role is: Year-names commemorate walls of Sippar and other cities. Commanded labour built; he claimed; later ORACC is access. Do not twin this with canal-labour. A wall is not a canal. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: Year-names commemorate walls of Sippar and other cities. Commanded labour built; he claimed; later ORACC is access.

## Context

A Shamash city, unnamed commanded labour, and later tablet dates already sit in the file. A wall is not unique authorship of Sippar. Later ORACC is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed labour, Sippar’s priesthood, and later year-list scribes share the heading. The public setting is the file around -1756-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works. The setting of Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works is the public file around -1756-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument.

Shared responsibility is part of Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1756-01-01 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.

## Evidence and sources

ORACC and Britannica independently mark wall-building year-names as distinct from canals. Official: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Sippar walls (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, building year names (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: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Sippar walls (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, building year names (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Sippar walls (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus).

## Significance

Complex commanded labour. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated wall-work heading put public city-defence into the year-name file, distinct from canal labour as water-work. 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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Sippar-wall year-name heading. Not established: that canal year-names are this same work. Established: a sourced public record of Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works under -1756-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works under -1756-01-01.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with canal-labour. A wall is not a canal. Mixed effects of Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works are separate paths.

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

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

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-sippar-wall