Wiseman, who also considered that the tablet may have been copied from a Vorlage dif-
ferent to the Louvre stele.^341
C, BE35271
The tablet is written in Late Babylonian script. It forms part of the collection from the
University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the late 19th century. The tablet
was published by Bergmann and Falkenstein in 1953.^342
D, K10778
This is a Neo-Assyrian fragment from Kuyunjik, first published by Lassøe in 1950 from
an earlier drawing made by F. Geers.^343
J 1 , K4223; J 2 , Sm1008a
These fragments belong to a Neo-Assyrian tablet from Kuyunjik first published by
Meissner in 1908.^344 From the catalogue designation ‘Sm’ it can be assumed that these
fragments were discovered in the Southwest Palace.^345
(^340) Tablets in the British Museum numbered between BM33328 and BM77218 were largely excavated by
Rassam during his expeditions in Babylonia between 1879 and 1882. See the references in note. 341
See D.J. Wiseman, "Hammurabi Again," 161. This tablet contains only the prologue of the Laws, and so
many of the variants therein may be considered from the perspective of literary stylistic choices rather than
variation in legal tradition. On the literary status of the Law of Hammurabi in the first millennium see W.G.
Lambert, "The Laws of Hammurabi in the First Millennium," Reflets de deux fleuves: volume de mélanges
offerts à André Finet (eds M. Lebeau and P. Talon; Akkadica Supplementum VI; Leuven: Peeters, 1989)
95-98. 342
343 E. Bergmann, Codex Hammurabi, pl. 52, but see note above.
344 See the drawing in J. Laessøe, "On the Fragments of the Hammurabi Code," JCS 4, 3 (1950) 182.
B. Meissner, "Altbabylonische Gesetze," BASS III (1908) 505, 511.