Although it is known that earlier lawcodes existed, such as the code of urukagina, this represents the earliest extant legal text. He removed the head boatman in charge of the boats. Steinkeller, the reforms of urukagina and an early sumerian term for. Mesopotamia, sumeria, lagash, urukagina, impuestos, reforma social, reforma tributaria. Sumer, palestine region, bible, old testament, mesopotamia. Urukagina, uruinimgina, or irikagina was king of the citystates of lagash and girsu in. Pdf os codigos da mesopotamia vitor sousa academia. Like the magna carta and the united states constitution that followed and like the codes of hammurabi, et al. Cone fragment inscribed with part of the text of the reforms of uruinimgina urukagina oriental institute museum, university of chicago dsc06974. 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.
He removed the head shepherd in charge of the asses and sheep. This section deals with the millennial account of the first social reform, described by noah kramer, in the book. It limited the power of the priesthood and large property owners, and took measures against usury, burdensome controls, hunger, theft, murder, and seizure of peoples property and persons. The first cone describes the prevailing conditions at the time. For a brief biography of urukagina, see urukagina, the reformist king on this website. The liberty cones of urukagina sumerian shakespeare. Media in category urukagina the following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
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