The Code of Hammurabi<span> is inscribed on this seven-foot basalt </span>stele<span>. The </span>stele<span> is now at the Louvre. The Code of </span>Hammurabi<span> refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King </span>Hammurabi(reign 1792-1750 B.C.). <span>The sixth Babylonian king, </span>Hammurabi<span>, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a 2.25 metre (7.5 ft) stone </span>stele<span> and consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an </span>eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" <span>as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man or woman.
