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The Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses

Dated 1 March 1755: The Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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Unfree labour as inscribed. Not a unique headcount. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).

Why it matters

Unfree labour as inscribed. Not a unique headcount.

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

What changed

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

    1. FactThe Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses
    2. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 March 1755 · verified

    Unfree labour as inscribed. Not a unique headcount.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Met Heilbrunn — HammurabiMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Avalon Project — later English Code of HammurabiYale Law School · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Driver labour-market-tightness is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from The Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses at -1755-03-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hamm/hd_hamm.htm (opens in a new tab).

Causal path

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

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactThe Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses
  3. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). The Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-slave-clauses

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-slave-clauses

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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