Foto: left: Gortyn Code, 500-450 B.C. (Picture by Afrank99, CC BY-SA 2.5); middle: Lex de Imperio Vespasiani, 69-70 A.C. (Picture by Steve Kershaw, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0); right: Nash Papyrus, 2nd Century B.C. (Picture by University of Cambridge, CC BY-NC 3.0)

Purpose

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Time	Oriental	Hebrew	Greco-Hellenistic	Roman
ca. 2100 BC	Code of Ur-Nammu
ca. 1700 BC	Code of Hammurabi Laws of Eshnunna
ca. 1250 BC		Mosaic Law Hebrew Bible
621 BC			Dracos's Law Code
450 BC			Law of Gortyn	Law of the Twelve Tables
286 BC				Lex Aquilia
200 AD		Mishnah
300-500 AD		Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud
528-534 AD				Corpus Juris Civilis

Foto: Zdenek Kratochvil

Research Center

for the interdisciplinary study of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish law