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Kingship (or any kind of absolutist power) and its close relationship to and ... BCE but the exact dates and duration of his reign are still subject to research. ... his own inscription the people of the city of Akkad wished him to be the god of their city. ... which the king proliferated the cult of the Ishtar, the goddess of war and love.../ How, when, and why did the prehistoric Egyptians and ... As a god, the king of Egypt had absolute power over the land and its people, yet he ... XIXd. 52. MARDUK IN TIAMAT AND MARDUK ON HIS MOUNTAIN BEFORE EA: AN AKKADIAN.
Earliest civilizations that exhibit the phenomenon of divinized kings are early Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Therefore it is all the more surprising that ancient Egyptian-to a lesser extent-and ancient Mesopotamian kingship are often ignored in comparative studies of the phenomenon of divine or sacred kingship.
The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest surviving law code. This text was written on clay tablets in the Sumerian language and is reckoned to have been produced towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC. The Code of Ur-Nammu may be divided into two parts, the first is the prologue and the second is the laws themselves. Apart from being the oldest surviving law code, the Code of Ur-Nammu is also important as it gives us a glimpse of the way justice was conceived in ancient Sumerian society.
Law Code Divided in/pes
Earlier law codes, such as the Code of Urukagina, are known to exist. Nevertheless, the Code of Ur-Nammu is different in the sense that the text itself has survived to a large extent. The actual contents of the Code of Urukagina,