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Laws of Eshnunna

c. 1800 BCE · 19th century BCE

The Laws of Eshnunna are a collection of about sixty legal provisions written in Akkadian around 1800 BCE in the kingdom of Eshnunna, in Mesopotamia. Found on two tablets at Tell Harmal in Baghdad in the 1940s, they set prices, wages and fines and deal with marriage, slavery, property and injuries, including a goring ox. They are older than the Code of Hammurabi, which shares many of their rules.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Laws of Eshnunna. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/laws-of-eshnunna
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