RELG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sarpanit, Zimri-Lim, Atra-Hasis
22 Feb 2018
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King zimri-lim of mari was hammurabi"s greatest ally, and eventually, hammurabi went and destroyed mari: took hammurabi around 30 years to take over whole region, king nebuchadnezzar: in charge of the destruction of the temple (seen in. *mesopotamians stole the statues of the people they conquered. **code of hammurabi was broken, put back together- put in the louvre: statue of hammurabi and shamash- shamash= also the god of justice, the code of hammurabi: long poem followed by a long list of laws. Not really laws, more in the form of if someone does x, they will have to do y : the awilu: the free people, most people amongst this class. The mushkenu: subordinate, closer to awilu than slaves, had rights but not as many as the awilu: name of bel in code of hammurabi prologue: bel= lord. Eventually marduk is called bel-marduk (marduk the lord)
