§ 224

Law § 224 of Hammurabi's Code

Translation
If an ox or donkey physician treated either an ox or a donkey for a serious wound and has healed (it), the owner of the ox or donkey will give the physician one-sixth (shekel of) silver as his wages.
Inscription

Cuneiform

Law § 224 - Cuneiform - Law Code of Hammurabi

Source: Bergmann (1953, p. 28, col. R XIX, lns. 18–28)

Transliteration

šum-ma A.ZU GUD ù lu ANŠE lu GUD ù lu ANŠE si20-im-ma-am kab-tam i-pu-uš-ma ub-ta-al-li-iṭ be-el GUD ù lu ANŠE IGI.6.GÁL KUG.BABBAR a-na A.ZU Á-šu i-na-ad-di-in

Source: Huehnergard (2011, p. 331)

Normalization

šumma asi alpim ū lū imērim lū alpam ū lū imēram simmam kabtam īpuš-ma ubtalliṭ, bēl alpim ū lū imērim šuduš/šeššat kaspam ana asîm idīšu inaddin.

Source: Huehnergard (2013, p. 83)

Translation

If an ox or donkey physician treated either an ox or a donkey for a serious wound and has healed (it), the owner of the ox or donkey will give the physician one-sixth (shekel of) silver as his wages.

Source: Huehnergard (2013, p. 83)

Inscription

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Side(s) Sides 4 – 5 (overflow)
Column(s) Col. 42
Line(s) Lns. 18–28
Key
Law § 224
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Logic

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  • 1 If
  • 2
  • 3 [a physican]
  • 4 [of] an ox
  • 5 or
  • 6 donkey
  • 7 treated either
  • 8 an ox
  • 9 or
  • 10 a donkey
  • 11 for a serious wound
  • 12
  • 13 and
  • 14
  • 15 he
  • 16 has healed
  • 17 it,
  • 18 [or]
  • 19 it,
  • 20
  • 21 [then]
  • 22
  • 23 the owner
  • 24 (of) the ox
  • 25 or
  • 26 donkey
  • 27 will give
  • 28 the physician
  • 29 one-sixth (shekel of) silver as
  • 30 his
  • 31 wages.
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34

Citation

Dedović, B. "§ 224 - eHammurabi." OMNIKA Foundation, 5 Nov. 2023, ehlaw.org/law/224. [Accessed 4 Nov. 2024]

MLA 9

Dedović, B. (2023, November 5). § 224 - eHammurabi. OMNIKA Foundation. https://ehlaw.org/law/224

APA 7

Dedović, Boban. "§ 224 - eHammurabi." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created November 5, 2023. Modified September 14, 2024. Accessed November 4, 2024. https://ehlaw.org/law/224.

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Bibliography

Abulhab, Saad D. The Law Code of Hammurabi: Transliterated and Literally Translated from its Early Classical Arabic Language. New York, NY: Blautopf, 2017.

ACH

Bergmann, Eugen. Codex Ḫammurabi: Textus Primigenius. Rome, Italy: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1953.

CHTP

Huehnergard, John. A Grammar of Akkadian (Third Edition). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

HAG3

Huehnergard, John. Key to a Grammar of Akkadian (Third Edition). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.

HKEY3

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "OMNIKA: Digital Mythology Library & Search Engine." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation, accessed November 14, 2023. https://omnika.org. [Visit]

Richardson, Mervyn E.J. Hammurabi's Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary. New York, NY: T & T Clark International, 2004.

RHL

Sound of Text Contributors. "Sound of Text: AI Text-to-Speech." Accessed November 14, 2023. https://soundoftext.app. [Visit]

SoT

eHammurabi Glossary

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The term Cuneiform commonly means "an ancient writing system used by various cultures around Mesopotamia."

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