Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used across the ancient Middle East by peoples including the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites and Hittites. The best known of these is the Code of Hammurabi, but it had a number of precursor codes among the earlier cuneiform legal traditions it drew on. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites.
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Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites.
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It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language.
Code of Lipit-Ishtar (Wikipedia)
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As cuneiform law, it is a legal code written in cuneiform script in the Sumerian language.
Wikipedia: Laws of Eshnunna
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LE) are inscribed on two cuneiform tablets discovered in Tell Abū Harmal, Baghdad, Iraq.
Hittite laws (Wikipedia)
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They have been preserved on a number of Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa (CTH 291-292, listing 200 laws).
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