Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Law Code of Hammurabi

Accession Number: 
3836
Call Number: 
1Me:T4.1 B32co
Order Title: 
Miscellaneous Architecture
View Title: 
peak: Hammurabi and Shamash (the sun god)
Image description: 
originally from Sipper
Image Rights: 
copyright protected
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
Iranian
Culture: 
Babylonian
Culture: 
Mesopotamian
Work Types: 
Furnishings & Equipment; containers; funerary containers; sarcophagi (coffins)
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); architectural sculpture
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); funerary sculpture
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); reliefs (sculptures)
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); rock engravings
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); rock-cut sculpture
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works); scrimshaws
Preferred Title: 
Law Code of Hammurabi
Agent Display: 
Unknown (Iranian)
Date: 
ca. 1780 BCE (creation)
Materials: 
basalt
Measurement: 
h: 2.1 m ()
Locations: 
Louvre Museum, Paris, ¿le-de-France, France
Location Type: 
(repository)
Locations: 
Susa , Kh¿zest¿n, Iran
Location Type: 
(creation)
Style/Period: 
Near Eastern
Style/Period: 
Ancient
Classification: 
Sculpture