Not only are there no spaces between words, but the text is written in the Bustrophedon style, ancient Greek for as the ox turns, where the direction alternates between left to right and right to left with every line.
Hammurabi's main claim to fame is his famous law code which established everything from like the wages of ox drivers to the fact that the punishment for taking an eye should be having an eye taken.
When the double hour periods starting at 11 pm, 1am, 3am, and 5 am came to be associated with the mouse, the ox, the tiger, and the rabbit respectively.