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Where was Hammurabi born, and where did he die?

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No inscription or record from Hammurabi's reign, or from later Babylonian tradition, states where he was born or where he died. Reference works commonly default to Babylon, his dynastic capital, but this is inference from his reign rather than an attested fact.

What would resolve this A royal inscription or administrative record naming Hammurabi's birthplace or place of death; none survives from his reign or from the centuries after it.
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