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The oldest surviving law code in human history. The principle that the state — not the wronged family — defines and enforces justice begins here.
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Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 537. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the translite…