A clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription. It is the beginning of a hymn to King Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750 BC). In this Sumerian hymn, Hammurabi sings his own praise. He praises himself as a mighty warrior, good governor and just judge: the dragon of kings, who thwarts their counsels, the net that is spread over the enemy .... who plunges the land that does not bend for Marduk with his strong weapon. ... I have expelled the enemies, wiped out the evil, set down (the population of) my land in grassy meadows, do not leave anyone who is startled by them. These last lines come almost
A clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription. It is the beginning of a hymn to King Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750 BC). In this Sumerian hymn, Hammurabi sings his own praise. He praises himself as a mighty warrior, good governor and just judge: the dragon of kings, who thwarts their counsels, the net that is spread over the enemy .... who plunges the land that does not bend for Marduk with his strong weapon. ... I have expelled the enemies, wiped out the evil, set down (the population of) my land in grassy meadows, do not leave anyone who is startled by them. These last lines come almost literally, but now in Babylonian back in the prologue of Hammurabi's laws., Inscription, pottery, clay, L cm, B 6 cm, Old Babylonian Period 1792-1750 BC, Iraq
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