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"If a Slave Girl Fled..."

Being an account of how the law code of Lipit-Ishtar, a Sumerian king who ruled 19 centuries before Christ, was found to antedate the code of the great Hammurabi

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 178 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “If a Slave Girl Fled...” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 178 No. 6 (), p. 44
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0648-44