# The Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings

Date: 1755

## The fact

A law-collection stele is not a unique execution register. Death-penalty clauses are a justice path. Twin of public-law access. The dated public instrument is stored under 1902-03-01. [Hammurabi](/people/hammurabi) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## 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. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Louvre — Code of Hammurabi stele and Britannica — Code of Hammurabi independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Louvre — Code of Hammurabi stele (https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-code-of-hammurabi; Musée du Louvre).

## Significance

A law-collection stele is not a unique execution register. Death-penalty clauses are a justice path. Twin of public-law access.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Hammurabi.

They are not a public rating.

Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi
- https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-code-of-hammurabi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-stele-death-penalties