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How did the stele of Hammurabi's law code come to be found at Susa in Iran rather than in Babylon?
The monument proclaiming eternal justice survived because it was stolen. French excavators found it in three pieces in 1901-02; it stands in the Louvre.
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The Code of Hammurabi The Code of Hammurabi (c. 1754 BC) is the most complete early law collection to survive: 282 provisions from the Babylonian king, carved on a two-metre basalt stele under an image of the god of justice. Famous for 'an eye for an eye', it graded penalties by social class — and the stele itself was found in 1901 at Susa, where an Elamite king had carried it off as war loot.
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