Sabium
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Sabium (sà-bu-um) (also Sabum) was an Amorite King in the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Amorite Dynasty. He reigned c. 1844 BC – 1831 BC (MC),[1] and ruled what was at the time a small recently created Amorite kingdom which included the town of Babylon. Sabium makes no claim of kingship of Babylon itself, suggesting that it had not yet grown into the major metropolis it would become under his descendant Hammurabi.[2] His is known to have maintained control over the city of Sippar, conquered by Sumu-la-El.[3]
Ibal-pi-El I of Eshnunna is known to have concluded a treaty with Sin-Iddinam of Larsa and Sîn-kāšid of Uruk against Sabium and his ally Nerebtum.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beaulieu, Paul (2018). A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. Pondicherry: Wiley. p. 69. ISBN 978-1405188999.
- ^ Year names of Sabium of Babylon - CDLI
- ^ [1]Tanret, Michel, and Guido Suurmeijer, "Officials of the Šamaš Temple of Sippar as Contract Witnesses in the Old Babylonian Period", pp. 78-112, 2011
- ^ Guichard, Michaël, "Un traité d’alliance entre Larsa, Uruk et Ešnunna contre Sabium de Babylone", Semitica 56, pp. 9-34, 2014
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