Code of 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.
| Code of Lipit-Ishtar | |
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Prologue to the Code of Lipit-Ishtar (housed in the Louvre [AO 5473]) | |
| Author(s) | Lipit-Ishtar |
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.
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