MMW 11 Final: MMW Final Essay Plan #1
6 Dec 2016
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You are convinced that your research helps clarify the budge-haywood difference about the law code of the louvre stele. Explain. (cid:883)st tablet: (cid:498)if a blameless wife has been reviled by her husband dowry her father"s house. If the wife is not shall be thrown into the waters. (cid:499) You know that the louvre stele is controversial. E. a. wallis budge, the sourcebook author and translator, suggests that people went into the temple to consult the stele, and that the law code was therefore in active use. It was carried off to shush by an unknown king. He erased part of the text to provide space for his own inscriptions. On the upper part of the (cid:498)head(cid:499) of the steele, we see the king represented before the sun. The king has his right hand raised and his left arm resting on his left breast. The god is seen holding a rod and a circle=symbolizes eternity. (like a scepter)
