The Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi, 1792-1750 B.C.E., basalt, 225 x 65 cm (Louvre, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
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@africandiycrafts36354 жыл бұрын
Although school send me here, I found this quite interesting
@kekewuzheer954 жыл бұрын
RIght?? I actually enjoyed this
@masheejr24663 жыл бұрын
Same
@possemrs29303 жыл бұрын
same this was pretty cool
@isajanjooa12733 жыл бұрын
Same
@artistjorge4 жыл бұрын
While my prof may have shown us these videos in my art history class years ago, I genuinely love looking back and seeing these videos. It's fascinating. Ms.Kelly if you see this, you were an awesome professor.
@user-kw2bn6ll3h7 ай бұрын
It's amazing they have over 300 their own law and script used on stele over 4,000 years ago. They're legal precedents, and they take the form of announcing an action and its consequences. I saw this at Louvre about 5 years ago, but I just passed. I wanna look at it in detail when I go again.
@TheGLpanda7 жыл бұрын
Great video guys, love the format. Keep up the good work.
@arig16463 жыл бұрын
Wowzers
@1983amrnijad2 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull video! Thanks
@anonymouspsychedelicsuser81092 жыл бұрын
who else is watching this for their humanities class lol
@remasmr40953 жыл бұрын
this channel is so helpful I love it so much.
@MrNinoos117 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this amazing post.
@ghostfin60653 жыл бұрын
This is a very interesting video, I really like all the fun facts I have learned
@roserivera3003 Жыл бұрын
My professor sent me here too.xD
@jimmorywitherspoon8287 жыл бұрын
Awesome narration and very informative.
@monicab84007 жыл бұрын
Did steles normally function as law codes? Or is this just a unique example from Mesopotamian culture?
@michieldeprez40257 жыл бұрын
Because the majority of the population was illiterate, it was usual that in cases of dispute about the law, there would be a hired literate man to read what the codex exactly dictates. To make the information available to everyone, these codices would often stand in the middle of a town square. This is why they chose steles instead of clay tablets, it's easier to make one stele for a town than to have people work on dozens of tablets, and tablets are also easier to falsify, so that two tablets tell different things. As long as the mojority of the country was illiterate, they used these steles.
@joedellinger94376 ай бұрын
It was found when the French dug up an ancient museum, right? One can imagine some future society excavating the ruins of the Louvre and finding it all over again… We should carve a stone with it translated into modern languages for them to find with it…
@dav46266 Жыл бұрын
At 0:19, in the top right corner, is that supposed to say "Babylon" instead of "Babylonia"?
@smarthistory-art-history Жыл бұрын
Good question. Babylon was a city in Babylonia.
@KCarver7 жыл бұрын
Another great post
@jacksonlam74613 жыл бұрын
thi9s video is muy cool
@benzenekim11 күн бұрын
How tall is each cuneiform column? About a centimeter?
@smarthistory-art-history11 күн бұрын
I did a rough estimate, there is room for approximately 35 rows of text on the back (that may not be precisely right), divide that by 270 cm (the height) and you get roughly 6.5 cm for the height of each row.
@rain-ns4fy2 жыл бұрын
i love this😻😻😻😻😩😩😩😩
@elizabethlewis5316 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation for my Middle School Students as we begin a DBQ-Was Hammurabi's Law Code Just?"
@bee-pg6zg4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your lesson, it’s really educationally 📝 📚
@tanmoyprl7 жыл бұрын
Excellent narration. Thanks for such an informative video.
@oliverhouse68297 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Sumerian the official government language of the time?
@Mysticatlover6 жыл бұрын
Sean McCauley the akkadien came after the sumerian language so akkadien was the one at the time of Hammourabi.
@ericferguson60996 жыл бұрын
You guys are great!!!
@mustafaa14584 жыл бұрын
Glad to be from Iraq
@whipderp83223 жыл бұрын
cool!
@TheSommersj7 жыл бұрын
Why did the original one go away? Can you repost it?
@smarthistory-art-history7 жыл бұрын
Hi John, thanks for being in touch. That was a very old video and resolution of the images and the sound quality was quite poor-so we replaced it. Is there a reason that you need it?
@TheSommersj7 жыл бұрын
The new video is definitely better from a quality standpoint, but my reasons for liking the old one better are a bit selfish. I have been showing it to my 10th grade world history class for several years and the kids actually liked the flaws in the old one better. It had a little more banter and they thought the two speakers interrupting each other was entertaining and they paid more attention. I'll take their buy in anyway I can get it. Would you be willing to repost it but make it hidden?
@smarthistory-art-history7 жыл бұрын
I just went to look for the old video and remembered that we accidentally erased it when we switched to the new one. I think that's the first time this has ever happened. In any case, please pass along our greetings to your students, and do let us know if there are videos or essays that you'd like us to add. Best, Steven (and Beth)
@demonic887 жыл бұрын
wow great video! can you make one on the poetical stele of merneptah some time please? :D
@melonn85304 жыл бұрын
Ty!
@kaylanozawa47983 жыл бұрын
The oldest and most complete Torah scroll has been carbon dated to around 1250 BCE (wrong date, look below). The Torah is part of the Bible. The Law code of Hammurabi was written around 1771 BCE. Technically, the Torah was around before this law code was created.
@smarthistory-art-history3 жыл бұрын
I had understood that the earliest known complete Torah is dated to 1250 C.E. (not B.C.E) and that the oldest known fragments date to about 300 C.E. or about 2,000 years after the stele. See for example: www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/03/Worlds-Oldest-Torah-Scrolls/ That is not to say that older Torahs once existed of course.
@kaylanozawa47983 жыл бұрын
@@smarthistory-art-history Thank you for your genuine reply! My date was incorrect. However, it is possible that the Biblical scripture existed at the same time or before the code of Hammurabi. Take a look at The Silver Ketef Hinnom Scrolls that are dated back to around 16 or 17 century BCE. There is also evidence that the 10th-century B.C. Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon may have reference to scripture and the Passover. It is certainly worth looking into! These are only texts that have been found to date. Much of the texts that existed before are destroyed. However, I think it is incorrect to say that the code of Hammurabi existed before the Bible was written. Yes, the entirety of the Bible did not exist at this time. However, there is strong evidence that the Torah, Biblical values, and the history of the Old Testament existed before and during the code of Hammurabi! Several historians estimate that the Torah was first written around the 5th century BCE.
@AhatiMaat2 жыл бұрын
Your comment is wrong on many points...I will highlight a couple...first, the oldest Bible (a Greek word for book) is recognized as the Greek Septuagint which dates to 285 B.C.E. This means the Torah did not exist prior to the Code of Hammurabi because as you stated it is "a part of the Bible." Second, the only proof we have of the laws from Moses is by word a mouth and your Bible. And the Code of Hammurabi is not older than the Codes of Ur-Nammu which existed 2100 B.C. And evidence for these Codes are on clay tablets in museums. Comparing the Torah with the Codes of Hammurabi is similar to comparing Commissioner Gordon (Batman) with Commissioner Shea (REAL PERSON of NYC Police)
@kaylanozawa47982 жыл бұрын
@@AhatiMaat please do more research before replying with misinformation 😊
@AhatiMaat2 жыл бұрын
@@kaylanozawa4798 What part is misinformation?
@daddiehawkie28204 жыл бұрын
who is here from corona 😕🤚
@user-qq7bp1zm9g4 жыл бұрын
Kihg of Babylon
@user-qq7bp1zm9g4 жыл бұрын
God bless mesopotamia
@nbsaj4 жыл бұрын
in Iraq
@user-ro7zt3dd9r4 жыл бұрын
And as soon as yiu get legal codes, you get lawyers! 😅