The matched pair is urukaginas declaration of his social reforms for his citizens. Although it is known that earlier lawcodes existed, such as the code of urukagina, this represents the earliest extant legal text. Mesopotamia, sumeria, lagash, urukagina, impuestos, reforma social, reforma tributaria. He removed the head boatman in charge of the boats. This section deals with the millennial account of the first social reform, described by noah kramer, in the book. Urukaginas code has been widely hailed as the first recorded example of government reform, seeking to achieve a higher level of freedom and equality.
Sumerological studies in honor of thorkild jacobsen on his seventieth. Steinkeller, the reforms of urukagina and an early sumerian term for. When the god ningirsu, the warrior of the god enlil, granted the lugalship of lagash to urukagina, picking him out of the entire population, he ningirsu enjoined upon him the restoration of the divinely decreed way of life of former days. Like the magna carta and the united states constitution that followed and like the codes of hammurabi, et al. Sumer, palestine region, bible, old testament, mesopotamia. Ningirsu enjoined upon him the restoration of the divinely decreed way of life of former days. Media in category urukagina the following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
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