Consequences Of Inequity In The Law Code Of Hammurabi

Register to read the introduction… 120), under the heading On Class and Slavery, the differences of consequences among the classes were notable. An example being, how the punishment for “putting the eye out of another man” would be subject to whom committed the crime and to whom the crime was committed. The penalty for putting out the eye of or breaking the bone of a freed man would be one gold mina. If the injured were a slave, then half of the slave’s value would be paid to his master. If the person injured was of a higher class than that of the offender, the penalty was a public beating, where the offender would receive sixty lashes from an ox-whip. …show more content…
If his procedures were successful upon someone in the amelu class, he’d be paid ten shekels. The price paid for successful treatment of a person in the muskinu class would be five shekels, but for a slave, the fee would be lowered to two shekels. This is a case where one put a price on the value of human life.
Although there is a clear distinction of classes, according to both the works of Strayer’s chapter 3 and article by Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, M.A., Babylonia Law- The Code of Hammurabi, I found clarity in the documents provided in Considering the Evidence: Life and Afterlife in Mesopotamia & Egypt (Strayer’s text, pgs. 115-125). The Be a Scribe document, demonstrated how some professions meant greater hardships than others as well as how hierarchies exists among actual professions, as in the case of Scribes and their