# Hammurabi The first fact about Hammurabi is a conquest year-name and a death-penalty stele, not a marble inventor of law. Louvre at https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-code-of-hammurabi and Britannica Code at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi present the object. Avalon English at https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp prints clauses. ARCHIBAB at https://www.archibab.fr/ publishes letters and year names. CDLI at https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ is an open corpus. The 1901–02 find-and-move is a displacement of a Babylonian monument to Paris. The offsets are also URLs. OI Chicago at https://oi.uchicago.edu/ and Yale at https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/ publish tablets. ORACC at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ is open text. Britannica biography at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi marks reconstructed chronology. What the score must not say: that he invented law; that year-names are unique body counts; that 1902 is 1750; that Avalon HTML is an autograph. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the stele as a public object and on published year names, medium on unique destruction archaeology, low on unique canal-health coefficients. Related people are Zimri-Lim, Shamshi-Adad, later scribes. 1902 is a find-and-move. Year names are later-published formulae. The useful question is which later public pages still move conquest-formulae, graded penalties, and a Paris stele under his name. Keep year names stele clauses and 1902 find on separate dates. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: -1763-01-01 The defeat of Larsa is a completed conquest heading in year names; -1761-01-01 The end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading; -1755-01-01 The Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings; -1755-02-01 The Code prints graded penalties by status as a completed inequality instrument; -1755-03-01 The Code prints enslaved persons as property in completed clauses; -1760-01-01 Year names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings; -1762-01-01 Year names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings; -1755-05-01 The Code prints household-force and gendered penalties as completed clauses; -1755-04-01 The Code prints river-ordeal clauses as completed judicial-risk headings; -1759-01-01 Year names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings; -1758-01-01 Year names print canals as completed water-works headings; -1755-06-01 The stele prints law as something a king claims to show. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. This catalog keeps only instruments dated to the lifetime (or received lifetime date) of Hammurabi. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. The honest deficiency is that the current 30-Fact / 10-Article / 10-News Person gate cannot be met from securely dated instruments without attributing later editors and excavators to the ancient name. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. Hostile vita slander is not upgraded. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Confidence is high on named public pages, medium on unique coefficients, low on anecdote. ## Dated facts - 1786: A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-isin. Sources: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi. - 1765: Mari letters show Hammurabi as ally before the city’s end. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-mari-letters-alliance. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi, https://www.louvre.fr/en. - 1764: Year names record war with Elam as a completed force heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-elam-year29. Sources: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi. - 1762: The defeat of Larsa is a completed conquest heading in year names. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-larsa-conquest. Sources: https://www.archibab.fr/, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-ancient-history/. - 1762: Year names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-eshnunna-war. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi, https://oi.uchicago.edu/. - 1761: The end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-mari-end. Sources: https://oi.uchicago.edu/, https://www.archibab.fr/. - 1760: Year names print canal and temple work as completed commanded-labour headings. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-canal-labour. Sources: https://www.archibab.fr/, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-ancient-history/. - 1759: Year names print ‘destroyed X’ formulae as completed urban-harm headings. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-city-destruction-names. Sources: https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/, https://www.archibab.fr/. - 1758: Year names print canals as completed water-works headings. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-canal-as-water. Sources: https://www.archibab.fr/, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-ancient-history/. - 1757: Year names and the prologue honour work for Marduk at Esagila. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-esagila. Sources: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi. - 1756: Year names record walls and fortifications of Sippar as public works. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-sippar-wall. Sources: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi. - 1755: The Code prints wage and hire tariffs as public price-clauses. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-wage-tariff. Sources: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010174436, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/hammurabi