After Hammurabi’s time, the Code of Hammurabi remained important for more than 1,000 years. Students in scribal schools in major cities of Mesopotamia and Elam copied its text as an exercise. Commentaries on the code also existed, along with a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian excerpt. A fragmentary text suggests that a copy was kept in the library of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who lived in the 7th century bce.
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