Practice question · True or false
Hammurabi's Code is not cited in any surviving Babylonian court record.
Hints
- Was it a statute book or a monument?
- Judges seem never to have quoted it.
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True
Why
True. Thousands of legal tablets survive and none invokes the stela. It reads better as a royal display of justice, a king presenting himself to gods and posterity, than as working law, which is why 'code' is a modern label that imports the wrong expectations.
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