Code of Lipit-Ishtar

Code of Lipit-Ishtar
Code of Lipit-Ishtar
	Prologue to the Code of Lipit-Ishtar (housed in the Louvre [AO 5473])
Author(s)	Lipit-Ishtar

The Code of Lipit-Ishtar is a collection of laws promulgated by Lipit-Ishtar (r. 1934 – 1924 BCE (MC)), a ruler in Lower Mesopotamia. As cuneiform law, it is a legal code written in cuneiform script in the Sumerian language.^[2]^[3]

It is the second-oldest known extant legal code after the Code of Ur-Nammu. As it is more detailed than that earlier code, it paved the way for the famous later Code of Hammurabi.^[4]

^ Louvre 2014.
^ Sallaberger 2009, p. 7.
^ Falkenstein & San Nicolò 1950, p. 103.
^ Wilcke 2015.

[FOOTNOTELouvre2014-1] Louvre 2014.

[FOOTNOTESallaberger20097-2] Sallaberger 2009, p. 7.

[FOOTNOTEFalkensteinSan_Nicolò1950103-3] Falkenstein & San Nicolò 1950, p. 103.

[FOOTNOTEWilcke2015-4] Wilcke 2015.

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