The new complete code of Hammurabi

Personal comments -- Structure of Codex Hammurabi -- Special characters and comparison -- Proper names -- Grammar -- Meaning of the cuneiform signs, list and different tables -- The codex -- Transcription -- Chronological tables of the rulers in this area -- The development of the script. The Code of Hammurabi is the world's first written set of laws on a large and complex scale. Viel presents the signs from the original Codex in ancient Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian and provides an English transliteration of both. He also provides an English translation of the entire Codex.