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Code of Ur-Nammu

The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100–2050 BCE. It contains strong statements of royal power like "I eliminated enmity, violence, and cries for justice."[1]

Code of Ur-Nammu

c. 2100 BC–2050 BC

Istanbul Archaeology Museums (Ni.3191) (originally Nippur, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq))

Ur-Nammu

Legal code

Cuneiform law

Hammurabi Code

List of ancient legal codes

List of artifacts in biblical archaeology

Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement

Civil, Miguel (2011). "The Law Collection of Ur-Namma". In (ed.). Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press. pp. 221–286. ISBN 9781934309339.

George, Andrew R.

Kramer, S. N. (1954). "Ur-Nammu Law Code". Orientalia. 23 (1): 40–51.  43073169.

JSTOR

Roth, Martha T. (1995). Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Writings from the Ancient World. Vol. 6.  9780788503788.

ISBN

Wilcke, Claus (2002). . In Abusch, Tzvi (ed.). Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (in German). Penn State University Press. doi:10.1515/9781575065335. ISBN 9781575065335. JSTOR 10.5325/j.ctv1bxh4wn.

"Der Kodex Urnamma (CU): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion"

Wilcke, Claus (2014). . In Koslova, Natalia; Vizirova, E.; Zólyomi, Gabor (eds.). Studies in Sumerian Language and Literature: Festschrift Joachim Krecher. Babel und Bibel (in German). Vol. 8. Penn State University Press. pp. 455–616. doi:10.1515/9781575063553. ISBN 9781575063553. JSTOR 10.5325/j.ctv1bxh3kh.

"Gesetze in sumerischer Sprache"