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The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest codes found so far, and one of the best-preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia. The text is casuistic, meaning that it treats individual cases or cases according to a pattern "if ..., then ...". The Code of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, has been of great importance for a more systematic study of Babylonian law.
Initially it was thought that the text was a codification, comparable with, for example, the Napoleon Code. Nowadays historians are no longer convinced of this, partly because important issues from society at the time are not dealt with. In this way animal husbandry is only discussed indirectly. In addition, no legal text of that time refers to the code. Opinions differ as to what the text is. On the one hand it is thought that it is a scientific treatise, on the other hand it is said that it is royal propaganda with which Hammurabi portrayed himself as the king of justice whom one could trust if one had been wronged.
