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Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/3, pl. 233, Bod S 231. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Economy
The oldest surviving law code in human history. The principle that the state — not the wronged family — defines and enforces justice begins here.