| Code of Lipit-Ishtar | |
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| Author(s) | Lipit-Ishtar |
The Code of Lipit-Ishtar is a collection of laws promulgated by Lipit-Ishtar (r. 1934 – 1924 BCE (MC)), a ruler in Lower Mesopotamia. As cuneiform law, it is a legal code written in cuneiform script in the Sumerian language.[2][3]
It is the second-oldest known extant legal code after the Code of Ur-Nammu. As it is more detailed than that earlier code, it paved the way for the famous later Code of Hammurabi.[4]
- ^ Louvre 2014.
- ^ Sallaberger 2009, p. 7.
- ^ Falkenstein & San Nicolò 1950, p. 103.
- ^ Wilcke 2015.