CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Question
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7 feet
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6 feet 5 inches
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8 feet
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14 feet
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Detailed explanation-1: -The stele was found in three large fragments and reconstructed. It is 225 cm (7 ft 41⁄2 in) high, with a circumference is 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) at the summit and 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) at the base.
Detailed explanation-2: -The diorite stele is a large stone shaped like a giant finger. It is about seven feet tall and two feet wide. It contains around 4000 lines of text describing 282 different laws. At the top, or “fingertip", of the stele is a carved picture of King Hammurabi being given the laws from the Babylonian sun god Shamash.
Detailed explanation-3: -Code of Hammurabi, top of the stele, the god Shamash dictating his laws to Hammurabi, King of Babylon, found at Susa, c. 1750 BC (basalt) (see also 286949, 286950) by Mesopotamian.
Detailed explanation-4: -You are in front of one of the most exciting works in the Louvre, the stele on which the so-called Code of Hammurabi-the earliest collection of written laws in the history of man-is engraved.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi, 1792-1750 B.C.E., basalt, 225 x 65 cm (Louvre, Paris).