The laws of Ur-Namma

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Keywords

laws of Ur-Namma
Ur-Namma
Sumerian
Third Dynasty of Ur

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Mikołajczak, T. (2022). The laws of Ur-Namma. Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 73(2), 9–33. https://doi.org/10.14746/cph.2021.2.1 (Original work published December 21, 2021)

Abstract

Hitherto, there has been no complete Polish translation of the oldest well-preserved Mesopotamian collection of laws, i.e., the laws of Ur-Namma (who reigned between 2110 and 2093 BC). The following article presents a translation from Sumerian into Polish of this collection of laws and it includes the recently published manuscripts of this collection.

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