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The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses

The Code includes clauses fixing wages and hire for workers and animals. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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The Code includes clauses fixing wages and hire for workers and animals. The dated tariff is not the slave-property clauses and not the death-penalty list. Hammurabi’s documented role is: Clauses list wages for field-workers, craftsmen, and animal hire. Stonecutters cut; he is the royal speaker; later Louvre is access. Wages for hire are not slave-property law. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: Clauses list wages for field-workers, craftsmen, and animal hire.

Context

A palace economy, unnamed stonecutters, and later translators already sit in the file. A tariff is not a unique labour-market series. Later Louvre is not -1755. Named others on the file: Unnamed stonecutters, later translators, and unnamed hired workers as subjects of the clauses share the heading. The public setting is the file around -1755-09-01. The instrument stays The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. The setting of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses is the public file around -1755-09-01. Driver labour-market-tightness is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1755-09-01 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.

Why it matters

Medium confidence on unique enforcement. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated wage-list put public hire-rates onto the stele, distinct from slave-property clauses and from death-penalties. 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.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Clauses list wages for field-workers, craftsmen, and animal hire. Stonecutters cut; he is the royal speaker; later Louvre is access.

What changed

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

    1. FactThe Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses
    2. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 September 1755 · verified

    A dated wage-list put public hire-rates onto the stele, distinct from slave-property clauses and from death-penalties.

Evidence

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Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Louvre — Code of Hammurabi stele, prologue as later public objectMusée du Louvre · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Louvre and Britannica independently note economic wage clauses as a distinct part of the Code. Official: Louvre — Code of Hammurabi, wage clauses as later public object (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436 (opens in a new tab); Musée du Louvre). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, economic provisions of the Code (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); 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 — Code of Hammurabi, wage clauses as later public object (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436 (opens in a new tab); Musée du Louvre). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, economic provisions of the Code (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: wage/hire clauses on the stele. Not established: that every wage in Babylonia was paid at those figures. Established: a sourced public record of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses under -1755-09-01.

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

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Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactThe Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses
  3. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-wage-tariff

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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