Stele of Hammurabi / Law Code of Hammuabi / Stela of Hammurabi / Front view / Old Babylonian period; Creation date: ca. 1792-1750 BCE
About this Item
Record Details
- View Title
- Front view
- Creator/Culture
- Babylonian
- Site/Repository
- Discovery location: (Susa) Shūsh (Khuzestan, Iran)
- Repository: Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
- Media/Technique
- basalt
- Dimensions
- height of stele: 225 cm (88.58 inches) approximately, height of relief: 71.1 cm
- Subjects
- Sculptures (visual works)
- Iraq
- Mesopotamia
- Brouillard
- Art, Assyro-Babylonian
- Stelae
- Laws
- Shamash
- Relief (sculpture techniques)
- Babylonia
- Work Record ID
- 144980
- Image Record ID
- 1294889
- Digital filename
- 39900Fig02a_SteleofHam
- Classification Filing Number
- 216
- J
- 75H 2
- HART Image Order Number
- 220542
- Date Added/Updated
- 2012-11-25 07:52:42
Technical Details
- Collection
- History of Art, VRC Image Bank
- Image Size
- 784 x 2000
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 1294889
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1294889/39900fig02a_steleofham
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History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collections. Image 1294889. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1294889/39900fig02a_steleofham. June 01, 2024.