. The eastern nations and Greece. , gar-deners, tenants, shepherds —of all the classes which madeup the population of the Baby-lonian Empire. As in the caseof the later Hebrew code, theprinciple of retaliation deter-mined the penalty for injurydone another; it was an eyefor an eye, a tooth for a tooth,and a limb for a limb. The owner of a vicious oxwhich had pushed or gored aman was required to pay aheavy fine, provided he knewthe disposition of the creatureand had not blunted its horns(see Exod. xxi, 28-32). The law fixed prices and wages, the hire for boats and wagonsand of oxen for threshin
. The eastern nations and Greece. , gar-deners, tenants, shepherds —of all the classes which madeup the population of the Baby-lonian Empire. As in the caseof the later Hebrew code, theprinciple of retaliation deter-mined the penalty for injurydone another; it was an eyefor an eye, a tooth for a tooth,and a limb for a limb. The owner of a vicious oxwhich had pushed or gored aman was required to pay aheavy fine, provided he knewthe disposition of the creatureand had not blunted its horns(see Exod. xxi, 28-32). The law fixed prices and wages, the hire for boats and wagonsand of oxen for threshing, the fee of the surgeon, the wages of thebrickmaker, of the tailor, of the carpenter, and of other artisans. There were also provisions forbidding under severe penalties theharboring of runaway slaves — provisions which read strangely likeour own fugitive-slave laws of a half century and more ago. For more than two thousand years after its compilation this codeof laws was in force in the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, and. Fig. 44. Hammurabi Receiving theCode from the Sun-god Hammurabi places as the headpiece of themonument containing the laws of the countryan effigy of himself in an attitude of adorationbefore Shamash, The Judge, as the ultimatesource of the laws. — Jastrow 62 EARLY CITY-KINGDOMS OF BABYLONIA [§61 even after this lapse of time it was used as a textbook in the schoolsof the Mesopotamian lands. Probably no other code save the Mosaicor the Roman Civil Code has exerted a greater influence upon humansociety. As the oldest body of laws in existence, says an eminentAssyrian scholar, it marks a great epoch in the worlds history, andmust henceforth form the starting point for the systematic studyof historic jurisprudence. 61. Sciences: Astronomy, the Calendar, and Mathematics. Inastronomy the Babylonians made greater advance than the knowledge of the heavens came about from their interest asastrologers in the stars. They divided the zodiac in
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