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preserving an enduring record of Hammurabi's commitment to just ways for the land. The Stele is arguably the best known and most readily recognizable artifact from the ancient Near East-a status germane to this volume's discussion of the history of the public dimension of courts and their symbols.
At the top of the stele, above the long inscription, is a carved relief of Hammurabi and Shamash. Shamash is depicted seated on a throne, with Hammurabi standing next to him.
26 Νοε 2024 · The top portion of the stela depicts King Hammurabi receiving the laws from Šamaš, the god of justice, along with a ring and a rod, two symbols of law and justice. (Moudhy al-Rashid, University of Oxford)
of Hammurabi with investigating its influence on later generations of scribes. I examine the Laws of Hammurabi from its birth in a scribal workshop, amid examples of royal inscriptions and the study of scribal exercises and model
22 Οκτ 2020 · This chapter explains how the Stela (stone monument) of the Laws of Hammurabi was employed as a manifestation of political power. A royal investiture scene is at the top of the Stela, and the artist manipulated the imagery cleverly to enhance the legitimacy and authority of Hammurabi. Standard imagery is skillfully reconfigured to exalt him.
While the formal arrangement of the figures on the Stele of Hammurabi can be seen as an intensified relationship between god and ruler that simultaneously distances the viewer/ subject, I argue that this distancing is not one o f exclusion, but rather o f dynamic interaction and positioning of the viewer, in effect an 1 50 AGENCY AND IDENTITY ...
Since its discovery and decipherment at the turn of the twentieth century, the inscription of the Law Stele of Hammurabi, popularly known as the Code of Hammurabi, has been one of the most important sources for study of ancient Near Eastern law.
