Shamash
c. 2600 BCE – 100 CEattested
Sippar
- Mesopotamian
Sun god and, because the sun sees everything, the god of justice. Hammurabi had himself carved receiving the law from him at the top of the stele, which is the oldest surviving image of that particular claim.
Known for
- seeing everything, therefore judging
- the law handed down on the stele
- rays rising from the shoulders
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.