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Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient MW 10-11am, Peabody Museum 59D

17. The Middle in the South Rms 106-64-65-66: courtyard and throne room suite Wall Painting from Rm 106: “Investiture of Zimri-Lim” Stele of

Investiture of Zimri-Lim detail

The Lament over the Destruction of

1-8He has abandoned his cow-pen and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold. The wild has abandoned his cow-pen and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold. The lord of all the lands has abandoned it and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold. Enlil has abandoned the shrine Nibru and has let the breezes haunt his sheepfold. His wife Ninlil has abandoned it and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold. Ninlil has abandoned that house, the Ki-ur, and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold. The queen of Kiš has abandoned it and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold. Ninmah has abandoned that house Kiš and has let the breezes haunt her sheepfold. Political Organization of - Period States, 2000-1800 BC

1936 BC 1910 BC

Isin Isin

Larsa Larsa Political Organization of Isin-Larsa Period States, 2000-1800 BC

1879 BC 1802 BC

Mashkan -shapir

Babylon Ur in the early 2nd millennium Three moments in the urban/archaeological history of Ur:

• The royal tombs of the Early Dynastic Period city (early to mid 3rd millennium BC)

• The sanctuary of Nanna complex and the massive urban construction in the city at the time of the kings (late 3rd millennium BC)

• Residential neighborhoods (early 2nd millennium BC) Area AH at Ur Area AH at Ur

House at “11 Paternoster Row” Private Houses at Areas TA and TB, two “Neighborhoods” Inheritance and architectural evolution in Area TA, Nippur Mashkan-Shapir Mashkan-Shapir Mashkan-Shapir Mashkan-Shapir

Old Babylonian model chariots from Mashkan-Shapir Reconstruction of Mashkan-Shapir

The Kingdom of Hammurabi (Old Babylonian Period)

From the text of Stele of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), his famous “law code”

228 If a builder build a house for some one (awilum) and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229 If a builder build a house for some one (awilum), and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230 If it kill the son of the owner the son (mushkenum) of that builder shall be put to death.

231 If it kill a slave (wardum) of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232 If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233 If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means. Stele of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), and his famous “law code” Museum