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Kathryn Slanski

Yale scholar of Mesopotamia, studying texts, images, inscribed monuments, law and authority.

Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on 20 April 2026, seen from Elm and High Streets. It provides context for the university that Kathryn Slanski joined in 2004
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on 20 April 2026, seen from Elm and High Streets. It provides context for the university that Kathryn Slanski joined in 2004Christian David / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SALicense · Related reference · Image source

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Kathryn Slanski researches Near Eastern languages, civilizations and humanities at Yale, examining text, image and the functions of inscribed Mesopotamian monuments. [1]

Her 2012 study explains HammurabiHammurabiKing of Babylon in Mesopotamia, reigning around 1792–1750 BCE. A celebrated legal text preserved on a stele and cuneiform copies bears his name.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s stele as a declaration of justice and royal commemoration, also examining its continued copying. [2]

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  1. Yale University, identity and context: Kathryn Slanski. Biography and cited works Return to the text ↑
  2. Kathryn E. Slanski, study of Hammurabi’s stele, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 24 (2012). pp. 97–110, especially 101–108 Return to the text ↑

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