Code of Lipit-Ishtar

Code of Lipit-Ishtar
Prologue to the Code of Lipit-Ishtar (housed in the Louvre [AO 5473])[1]
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]