book chapter
Hammurabi and the end of his dynasty
Cambridge ancient history • Cambridge • Published In 1965 • Pages: 176-227
By: Gadd, C. J. (Cyril John).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author discusses Babylonian culture and history around the time of Hammurabi, focusing on foreign affairs and military campaigns. Legal codes, contracts, and court cases are also discussed. The document concludes with a brief discussion of the empire’s decline under Hammurabi’s successors, up to the beginning of the Kassite Dynasty.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Real property
- Mercantile business
- Verbal arts
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Legal norms
- Sanctions
- Military organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1792 BC–1595 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- [C. J. Gadd]
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia