Cutting off hands was another popular punishment if, for example, a son struck his father, or a field hand stole the crops they were tending.
Babylonian king, code of laws
Summary of punishments in the Code of Hammurabi
c. 1754 BC
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"If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye."
Controversial"If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its …"
Humorous"If a member of the awilum class struck someone of equal status, they would pay one mina of silver. But if they struck a member of the mushkenum class, they would pay only ten shekels."
Controversial"Were a child to strike a father, the child's hands were cut off."
Controversial"Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off."
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