The approximately 3,800 year old text of the Code of Hammurabi shows a relief in the upper area that shows King Hammurabi in front of the enthroned sun, truth and justice god Šamaš.

The text goes back to Hammurabi, the sixth king of the 1st Dynasty of Babylon. It is found on an almost completely preserved 2.25 m high diorite stele, on several basalt stele fragments from other steles and in over 30 clay tablet copies from the second and first millennium BC. handed down. This stele itself is also often referred to as the “Codex Hammurabi”. It is now on display in the Louvre in Paris and, like the fragments of the basalt steles, was found by French archaeologists in Susa, where it was brought in the 12th century BC. was abducted from Babylonia. Because of these good sources, the text is now fully known.

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