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Predates Hammurabi by roughly 150 years, recording Lipit-Eštar's mandate from An and Enlil to 'establish justice' — an early articulation of the Mesopotamian ideology that divine authority underwrites royal law-giving.
LawReligion & Myth(1) Gan-kunsig, erešdiĝir priestess of Pabilsaĝ.
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