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Theme: Legitimacy
Object: Wall panel detail showing a god (possibly Shamash) holding a ring of god-given kingship
From:
Northern Iraq, around 870–860 BCE
For: Phil


"That the strong may not oppress the weak, that justice may be dealt the orphan and the widow"
Prologue to Hammurabi's Law code around 1750 BCE




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