The Mari's 20,000 Clay Tablets Including Hundreds Of Hammurabi Offocial Letters

Hammurabi was now at the peak of his career, lord of a unified domain that included virtually all of Mesopotamia and its environs. In the prologue to his Law Code--the best-known copy od which is engraved on a stele, or stone shaft, preseved in the louvre in Paris--he boasted that Babylon was now "supreme in the world"and that the foundations of his kingship were "as firm as those of heaven and earth." According to this same prologue, it was the [gods] who had instructed  him "to make justice appear in the land, to destroy the evil and the wicked that the strong might not oppress the weak, to rise like the sun-god...to give light to the land." Considerable information has survived  about  Hammurabi's administration of his empire.