One of the archaic legal catalogues, possibly the fourth by antiquity, issued around the year 1760 before the Christian era, according to the media, by the Babylonian King 40 chronology; 41 Mesopotamia; Hammurabi, sixth of the first dynasty of Babylon. Consists of 282 laws, written in Akkadian language, recorded in cuneiform writing on several stelae ( monoliths ) one of which is on display in the Museum of Louvre (Paris ). Among these regulations contains the «law of retaliation» ( «»«lex talionis», of «talis»: such, identical ) for the purpose that the punishment was exactly equal to the offense, whose synthesis is expressed in the famous aphorism 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth'.
