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YALE ORIENTAL SERIES 
 
 RESEARCHES 
 
 VOLUME IV 
 PART I 
 
 PUBLISHED FEOM THE 
 
 FUND GIVEN TO THE UNIVEESITY 
 
 IN MEMORY OP 
 
 MARY STEVENS HAMMOND 
 
YALE ORIENTAL SERIES. RESEARCHES, VOL. IV, 1 
 
 CHRONOLOGY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 LARSA DYNASTY 
 
 BY 
 ETTALENE HEARS GRICE, Ph.D. 
 
 MEMBER OP THE YALE BABYLONIAN SEMINARY 
 
 NEW HAVEN 
 
 YALE UNIVERSITY PEESS 
 
 LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
 
 MDCCCCXIX 
 
 <IT 
 
Pj4c\n ic.nl 
 
 Copyright, 1919, by 
 Tale University Press. 
 
ABBREVIATIONS 
 
 AJ8L American Journal of Semitic Languages, etc. 
 
 AO Tablets marked AO are in the Museum of the Louvre. 
 
 BA Beitrdge zur Assyriologie. 
 
 Bahyl Babyloniaca. 
 
 Ba W Barton The Origin and Development of Babylonian Writing 
 
 {BA vol. ix) . 
 BE Babyloniam Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania; 
 
 e. g., BE vi(l) = vol. vi, part 1. 
 Br. Briinnow A Classified List of Cuneiform Ideographs. 
 
 Bu Tablets marked Brit. Mus. or Bu are in the British Museum. 
 
 CT Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British 
 
 Museum. 
 Dl S 01 D.elitzsch Sumerisches Glossar. 
 
 EBLL Early Babylonia/n Letters from Larsa {YBT vol. II). 
 
 HOT Historical amd Grammxitical Texts {TJMBS vol. T). 
 
 1(1) line(s). - 
 
 LC Lettres et Contrats de I'Epoque de la Premiere Dynastie Assyri- 
 
 enne. 
 LIH Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi. 
 
 Mei Meissner Seltene assyrische Ideogramme. - 
 
 Mei ABP Meissner Beitrage zum altbabylonischen Privatrecht. 
 Misc-Insc Miscellaneous Inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian Collection 
 
 {YBT Yol.l). 
 MLC Tablets marked MLC are in the Morgan Library CoHeetion. 
 
 Ni Tablets marked Ni are in the Imperial Ottoman Museum in 
 
 Constantinople. 
 No(s). Number(s). 
 
 OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung . 
 
 P(P) page(s). 
 
 pi plate. 
 
 PSBA Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. 
 
 B Eawlinson Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. 
 
 ' BA Bevue d' Assyriologie, etc. 
 
 RPH Robert Francis Harper Collection of tablets in the possession 
 
 of the University of Chicago. 
 (5) 
 
6 YALE OEIENTAL SBKIES • EESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 RT Becueil de Travaux Belatifs a la Philologie et a I'Archeologie. 
 
 RUL Records from Ur and Larsa, dated in the Larsa Dynasty {YBT 
 
 vol. V). 
 SCL Cuneiform Documents in the Smith College Library. 
 
 Th-D Thureau-Dangin. 
 
 U Eefers to list of Unidentified Formulae, probably of the Larsa 
 
 Dynasty. (See the present work, p. 40 f.) 
 UMBS University of Pennsylvania. The Museiim. Publications of 
 
 the Babylonian Section; e. g., TJMBS viii(l) = vol. VIII, 
 
 part 1. 
 TJrk Urkunden des Altbabylonischen Zivil- und Prozessrechts {VAB 
 
 vol.V). 
 VAB Vorderasiatische Bibliothek. 
 
 Var Variant (s). 
 
 VS Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmdler. 
 
 Warka Strassmaier Die altbabylonischen Vertrdge aus Warka (in V. 
 
 Oriental Congress, Berlin, 1882). 
 YBC Tablets marked YBC are in the Yale Babylonian Collection, 
 
 most of those referred to being unpublished. 
 YBT Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 The large amount of material in the Yale Babylonian Collection 
 relative to the Larsa Dynasty suggested an opportunity for bring- 
 ing together all that is known, in order to furnish the basis for a 
 scientific study of the history of the dynasty. 
 
 Some of the royal inscriptions were collected by Thureau-Dangin 
 in Die sumerischen und akhadischen Konigsinschriften {VAB vol. 
 I), and by Price Literary Remains of Rim-Sin, while others have 
 since been published.^ The Larsa Dynastic Tablet, published by 
 Clay Miscellaneous Inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian Collection, 
 No. 32, furnished the outline of the dynasty, giving the rulers in 
 order, with the length of their reigns, thus supplying the frame- 
 work into which the details may be fitted. For the sake of com- 
 pleteness, the translation of this dynastic list is reproduced here. 
 
 21 
 
 years 
 
 Naplannm 
 
 28 
 
 
 EmisTi 
 
 35 
 
 
 Samnm 
 
 9 
 
 
 Zabaia 
 
 27 
 
 
 Gungunu 
 
 11 
 
 
 Abisare 
 
 29 
 
 
 Sumu-ilu 
 
 16 
 
 
 Nur-dIM 
 
 6(^y 
 
 2 <i 
 
 Sin-idinna.m 
 
 2 
 
 
 Sin-iribam 
 
 5(?)^ 
 
 2 ii 
 
 Sin-iqisbam 
 
 1 
 
 year 
 
 Sili-dlM 
 
 12 
 
 years 
 
 Warad-Sin 
 
 61 
 
 (( 
 
 Rim-Sin 
 
 14(?)^ 
 
 I ii 
 
 Hammurabi 
 
 12 
 
 it 
 
 Samsuiluna the king 
 
 289 years 
 
 "See, e. g., Clay Miso-Inso No. 31, an inscription of Warad-Sin; Th-D UA ix pp. 
 121 ff, and MA xi pp. 91 ff, inscriptions of Kudur-Mabuk. 
 
 = The duration of tlie reigns of Sin-idinnam, Sin-iqisham, and gammurabi is illegible 
 in this list. A new collation of the tablet, however, shows that contrary to the impres- 
 
 (V) 
 
8 YALE ORIENTAL SEEIES ■ EESEAECHES IV-1 
 
 A considerable number of business documents dated in the Larsa 
 Dynasty have also been published, some of them singly or in small 
 groups in periodicals, and a few larger groups in volumes composed 
 partly of texts belonging to other dynasties.* 
 
 Besides the dynastic list and the date list of the years of Ham- 
 murabi and Samsuiluna after Larsa was conquered by Babylon 
 {Misc-Insc Nos. 32 and 33), and j;he historical inscription of 
 Warad-Sin {idem No. 31) the Yale Collection contains some thou- 
 sands of business documents dated in the Larsa Dynasty. A group 
 of one hundred and ten of these records which were found at 
 Mugheir, together with a selection of one hundred and forty-three 
 similar texts from Larsa, are published in Records from Ur and 
 Larsa, dated in the Larsa Dynasty {YBT vol. V). By using the 
 data in the texts of this volume, together with other texts previ- 
 ously published, and some unpublished Yale tablets, an attempt 
 was made to collect for this monograph all the known formulae of 
 the dynasty, in chronological order, as far as possible. 
 
 When this work was well advanced, a copy of part of the text 
 of a prism in the Louvre, containing date formulae of part of the 
 Larsa Dynasty, was kindly sent in advance by Thureau-Dangin. 
 This confirmed various conclusions and conjectures concerning new 
 date formulae in Yale tablets, and was used in determining the 
 order of other formulae for the periods covered by it, though most 
 of it was so badly mutilated that for complete formulae it was 
 necessary to depend on Yale tablets. The prism has since been 
 published by Thureau-Dangin (RA xv pp. 1-57), the article having 
 appeared after the manuscript for the volume of Yale texts, men- 
 
 sion given by Th-D BA xv pp. 3-4, Clay's copy of the text is as accurate as could be 
 made. Yet although the sign expressing the number of years of Sammurabi is more 
 accurately reproduced by Clay than by Thureau-Dangin 's conjectural reproduction, the 
 facts that Hammurabi conquered Larsa fourteen years before the end of his reign, and 
 that formulae for these fourteen years are given in a date list for the period of Baby- 
 lon 's rule over Larsa which was found at Senkereh (Misc-Inso No. 33), make it seem 
 reasonable to suppose that fourteen years ought to have been written by the scribe. 
 Accordingly, the reigns of Sin-idinnam and Sin-iqlsham may be considered to have been 
 of six(?) and five(?) years respectively, as Thureau-Dangin (loc. cit.) suggested. 
 
 'Especially Strassmaier Die altiabylonischen Vertrdge aus WarTca, Chiera Legal and 
 Administrative Documents from Nippur, and Eigulla Vorderasiatisohe Schriftdenlcmdler 
 vol. xiii. For references to these and other texts see the List of Formulae below. 
 
GRICE ■ CHRONOLOGY OF LAESA DYNASTY 9 
 
 tioned above, was in the hands of the printer, and this monograph 
 nearly completed. 
 
 By using published texts and unpublished tablets in the Louvre 
 and in the Imperial Ottoman Museum in Constantinople, Thureau- 
 Dangin has restored most of the mutUated formulae of the prism 
 just as they had been independently restored from Yale tablets. 
 Nevertheless, since the Yale texts furnish some additional material 
 for the restoration of the broken formulae of the prism, and also 
 for the period of fifty-four years which is broken from the middle 
 of it, it seems worth whUe to publish at least that part of this 
 study which comprises a list of all the formulae of the dynasty that 
 are known, so arranged that they may conveniently be used by 
 scholars who are studying Larsa Dynasty material. Twenty-one 
 formulae, which cannot be positively assigned to any reign, have 
 been placed in a list of Unindentified Formulae at the close of the 
 list of formulae of definite reigns. Beasons for supposing that 
 certain of these record the acts of one or another king of the Larsa 
 Dynasty are there given in footnotes. 
 
 Since the historical inscriptions thus far published mention very 
 few events which are not noted in the date formulae, the list of 
 formulae will serve as a fairly complete summary of the achieve- 
 ments of tjie rulers of Larsa, though of course for their reverses 
 we must depend almost entirely on the records of their enemies. 
 
 For the period of fifty-four years which has been broken from 
 the Louvre prism; i. e., from the twenty-sixth year of Sumu-ilu 
 to the sixth year of Rim-Sin, business documents which contain 
 records for more than one year are valuable for determining the 
 order of the date formulae. Most noteworthy of these is the Yale 
 tablet published in RTJL No. 202, which contains an account of 
 grain delivered during nine years, using nine date formulae, as 
 follows : 
 
 (1) mv, Msal-malj, e ^Nannar ha-du 
 
 Year he built the lofty platform of the temple of Nannar. 
 
 (2) ntu alam Ku-du-ur-Ma-hu-uk gmkin su-du-a e ^Babhar-m i-ni-vn-tu-n 
 Year he brought into the temple of Shamash a statue of Kudur-Mabuk 
 entirely of gold. 
 
 (3) mu hdd-gal Uruma'''-{-'ina) ba-du 
 Year he built the great wall of Ur. 
 
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 (4) mu iiru''' Sag-PA-KAB-DU ki-bi-su M-in-ge-a 
 
 Year he restored to its place the city Sag-PA-KAB-DU. 
 
 (5) mu e '^Nin-x i-Ai!^ sag Mas-gan-saira''' mu-un-du-a 
 
 Year he built the temple of Nin-a; ... in Mashganshabra. 
 
 (6) mu Ri-im-'^Sin lugal 
 
 (First) year of Rim-Sin, the king. 
 
 (7) mu e '^IM sag Ararma''^ ba-di'i 
 
 Year he built the temple of IM in Larsa. 
 
 (8) mu i urudu alam Ku-du-ur-3Ia-btt-uk e '^Nannar-su i-ni-in-tu-ri u e 
 ''Nin-mar-ki sag Bu-um-ma mu-un-du-a 
 
 Year he brought into the temple of Nannar four bronze statues of 
 Kudur-Mabuk, and built the temple of Nin-mar-ki in Rumma. 
 
 (9) mu e ''Innina ''Nannar w '^En-ki sag Ararma''' mu-un-du-a 
 Year he built the temple of Innina, Nannar, and Enki in Larsa. 
 
 Another Yale tablet, published as No. 207 of the same volume, is 
 an account of a variety of articles delivered during the last five 
 years of those nine, the five-year account thus confirming the other. 
 Since the sixth of these years is the first year of Rim-Sin, the two 
 records show conclusively the formulae for the last five years of 
 Warad-Sin and the first four of Eim-Sin, his brother and successor. 
 
 RUL No. 15 contains two formulae: mu Si-li-'^IM nqm-lugal-ta 
 sir-ra "Year when SUi-ZM was deposed from the kingship" (see 
 RUL p. 17) followed by mu Warad-^Sin lugal " (First) year of 
 Warad-Sin, the king." Since Sili-ZM reigned only one year, while 
 another text, RUL 117, is dated "(First) year of Sili-7M, the 
 king," "The year SUi-Iilf was deposed from the kingship" must 
 have been used for the fraction of a year after Kudur-Mabuk con- 
 quered SUi-ZM and placed his son Warad-Sin on the throne of 
 Larsa; i.e., the "accession" year as distinguished from the 
 "first" year, according to the terminology used in the Neo-Baby- 
 lonian Period. All the texts dated by this formula which have 
 come to light are dated in the twelfth month. 
 
 RUL 38 contains two formulae: mu unu S-babbar-ra ba-du 
 "Year he built the dwelling E-babbar," followed by mu ugnim 
 DIN-TIR-KI ^Huhul ba-an-slg "Year he smote with his weapon 
 the army of Babylon. ' ' Since Sin-idinnam records in his inscrip- 
 
GEICE • CHRONOLOGY OF LARSA DYNASTY H 
 
 tions the building of fi-babbar,* there is reason to suppose that we 
 have here the formulae for two successive years of Sin-idinnam, 
 and that he was victorious in a conflict with Babylon, as some years 
 later Rim-Sin succeeded in smiting Babylon when that city formed 
 one of a coalition under the leadership of Erech and its king, 
 Warad-NE-NE. (See the formula for Rim-Sin's fifteenth year.) 
 
 AO 6759 (quoted by Scheil OLZ xvii p. 246; Thureau-Dangin 
 RA XV p. 25), contains the formula mu 2 urudu alam Ku-du-ur-Ma- 
 hu-uk u 1 urudu na-ru-a sag tl-gal-bar-ra-su i-ni-in-tu-ri "Year he 
 brought into Egal-barra two bronze statues of Kudur-Mabuk and 
 one bronze stele," followed by the formula for the seventh year 
 of Rim-Sin. The formula concerning the two statues of Kudur- 
 Mabuk and the stele is thus shown to be for Rim- Sin's sixth year. 
 
 Though the publication of the Larsa Date List by Thureau- 
 Dangin determines the order of the years of Rim-Sin beginning 
 with the seventh, the other dated documents which contain two or 
 more formulae of the last fifty-five years of Rim-Sin's reign, and 
 which therefore showed the order of groups of years before the 
 publication of the text of the prism, may nevertheless be mentioned 
 here. Some of these are : a tablet in the Morgan Library Collec- 
 tion, quoted by Johns P8BA xxxii p. 276, which contains the 
 formulae for the seventh, the eighth, and the ninth years of Rim- 
 Sin; RUL 212, which has the formulae for his seventh and his 
 eighth years ; RUL 208, which contains those for his tenth and his 
 eleventh years ; RUL 217, the twenty-second and the twenty-third; 
 RUL 150, the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth; RUL 223, the 
 twenty-fifth and the twenty-sixth ; and RUL 218, the twenty-ninth 
 and the thirtieth. 
 
 A further point of interest, discussed by Clay Misc-Insc p. 38 
 relates to five Yale texts (YBC 4229, 4270, 4307, 4384, 4481) which 
 are evidently dated in the second year of the Isin era, but which 
 either introduce the formula mu Tci-2 sag mu ki-19 or add at the end 
 of a long formula sag mu ki-18 or sag mu ki-18 in-ag. The proof 
 that the Isin era of thirty-one years was at the end of Rim-Sin's 
 long reign shows that the solution proposed by Clay, that the 
 
 * See Th-D VAB I pp. 208-211 ; texts published Dl BA I pp. 301 fC, Lenormant Choix 
 de Textes No. 6 and IV B 36 No. 2, CT xxi 80 30215. 
 
12 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 second year of the Isin era was the nineteentli year of the reign, 
 cannot be accepted. But eighteen years earlier than the second 
 year of the Isin era, in the fifteenth year of the reign, we find 
 the first mention of Rim-Sin's contending with the army of Isin. 
 Inasmuch as the formulae for his twenty-sixth and his thirtieth 
 years also record partial victories over Isin, there is reason to 
 suppose that during all the eighteen years since the beginning of 
 the conflict in his fifteenth year, Rim-Sin had been trying more or 
 less constantly to break the power of his rival, and that after 
 his final success, which marked the rise of Larsa to the supreme 
 power in southern Babylonia, a reference to the duration of the 
 contest was made in the brief sag mu ki-18 {or 19) "in the eigh- 
 teenth (or nineteenth) year." The use of eighteen in some texts 
 and nineteen in others might be due to the fact that the event 
 mentioned in a date formula occurred probably in the year previous 
 to that designated by the formula. (See Th-D RA xv p. 40.) 
 Accordingly, one scribe may have calculated from the year of the 
 event, another from the year of the formula. 
 
 Besides the two synchronisms between kings of Larsa and those 
 of other dynasties that are shown by the date formulae ; namely, 
 that Zambia king of Isin was probably a contemporary of Sin- 
 idinnam of Larsa, and that Warad-NE-NE was king of Erech in 
 the fifteenth year of Rim-Sin, it may not be out of place to mention 
 here a third synchronism indicated by an oath formula. RUL 124, 
 dated Warad-Sin a (see the List, below), mentions as a contem- 
 porary of Warad-Sin a hitherto unknown king of Erech named 
 Sin-iribam. The name of this king, it is interesting to observe, 
 is the same as that of one of the kings of Larsa. 
 
 In the following List of Formulae are registered most of the 
 published or quoted business documents which are dated in the 
 Larsa Dynasty. References are likewise given to a considerable 
 number of unpublished Yale tablets. Yet no attempt has been 
 made to register all the unpublished Larsa Dynasty texts in the 
 Yale Babylonian Collection. Only the unpublished tablets from 
 Mugheir, numbered 4719-4865, have been mentioned, together with 
 a sufficient number of tablets from Senkereh to suggest the large 
 amount of material in the Yale Collection for the study of the Larsa 
 
GEICE • CHRONOLOGY OF LARSA DYNASTY 13 
 
 Dynasty. The large number of unpublished Yale texts of the Isin 
 era, except a few that are noteworthy for special reasons, have been 
 omitted. Variants in verbal and nominal forms, suffixes, and the 
 like, are fully given in the footnotes, for the light they throw on 
 Sumerian grammar and style. 
 
 The following system of notation and abbreviations for the List 
 of Formulae has been adopted. Figures indicate known years 
 of definite reigns ; as W-S 1 is the first year of Warad-Sin. Dates 
 with Eoman letters, like W-S a, belong to the reign of Warad-Sin, 
 but their order in the reign is undetermined. Dates with a Greek 
 letter, like W-S «, are only conjecturally assigned to the reign. 
 U a, U b, etc., indicate the unidentified formulae which probably 
 belong to the Larsa Dynasty. 
 
 LIST OP DATE FORMULAE 
 
 Naplannm 
 
 21 years 
 
 Bmisu 
 
 28 years 
 
 Samum 
 
 35 years 
 
 Zabaia 
 
 ■9 years 
 
 Gungunum 27 years 
 
 1. mu Gu-un-gu-nu-tim [lugal]'^ (First) year of Gungunum, [the 
 AO 7025^ I: 5. king]. 
 
 2. mu 2 s^^gisimmar urudu e ^Bdb- Year he brought into the temple of 
 
 bavrsu i-ni-in-tu-ri Shamash two bronze palm 
 
 AO 7025 I: 6. trees. 
 
 3. mu Ba-si-mi''' ba-Jiul Year he devastated Bashimi. 
 AO 7025 1:7." 
 
 4. mu us-sa Ba-si-mi^* ha-hul Year after he devastated Bashimi. 
 AO 7025 1:8. 
 
 5. mu An-sd-an''' ha-hul Year he devastated Anshan. 
 AO 7025 I: 9. 
 
 ' Lugal is supplied because of the fact that in the business documents of the Larsa 
 Dynasty the formula for the first year of a reign is written tom . . . lugal. The 
 three formulae for the first year of a reign which have been preserved in the Larsa 
 Dynasty Date List in the Louvre (AO 7025 I: 5, 34, 46) have been so injured that it 
 is impossible to tell from the copy whether they originally contained lugal or not. 
 
 = Published by Th-D MA xv pp. 52 n. 
 
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 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 6. mil en ^Bahiar mds-e in-pdd 
 AO 70251: 10. 
 
 7. mil us-sa en ^Bahiar mds-e in- 
 
 pdd 
 AO 7025 I: 11. 
 
 8. mu alam urudu gu-la e ^Bab- 
 
 bar-su i-ni-in-tu-ri 
 AO 7025 I: 12. 
 
 9. mu en ^Babiar ba-hun-gd 
 AO 7025 I: 13. 
 
 10. mu s^^su-nir min-a-bi e '^Nan- 
 
 nar-su i-7ii-in-tu-ri 
 AO 7025 I: 14; ef. U s. 
 
 11. mu alam urudu glr-iab-ba mu- 
 
 un-na-an-dlm 
 AO 7025 I: 15. 
 
 12. mu us-sa alam urudu gir-tab-ba 
 
 mu-un-na-an-dlm 
 AO 7025 I: 16. 
 
 13. mu EN-DINGIB-NIN-8UN- 
 
 ZIB^ en ''Nin-x ha-hun-gd 
 AO 7025 I: 17. 
 
 14. mu alam urudu glr-tab-ba e 
 
 ^Nannar-su, i-ni-in-[tu-ri] 
 AO 7025 I: 18; BUL 59(?).'' 
 
 Year he chose by omens the high 
 priest of Shamash. 
 
 Year after he chose by omens the 
 high priest of Shamash. 
 
 Year he brought into the temple of 
 Shamash a large bronze statue. 
 
 Year he invested the high priest of 
 Shamash. 
 
 Year he brought two emblems into 
 the temple of Nannar. 
 
 Year he made a bronze statue with 
 a pedestal. 
 
 Year after he made a bronze statue 
 with a pedestal. 
 
 Year he invested EN-DINGIR- 
 NIN-SUN-ZIB, the high priest 
 of Nin-x. 
 
 Year he [brou] ght into the temple 
 of Nannar a bronze statue with 
 a pedestal. 
 
 "With EN-DINGIB-NIN-SUN-ZID en dNin--^ should be compared EN-AN-E-UL en 
 dNannar sdg Vrumaki in the formula Warad-Sin d, also EN-AN-E-UL nin-dingir-ra 
 Urumaki in an inscription of Nabonidus (Clay Misc-Inso No. 45 II: 1), as well as 
 EN-NIN-ST7N-ZID en dNin-x XJrumal'i(-ma) in an inscription of Libit-Ishtar (Clay 
 Miso-Insc 27: 15-17). In the inscription of Nabonidus, EN-AN-E-UL refers to the 
 daughter of Kudur-Mabuk. The similarity of this form with that of the name Bel-Sa- 
 al-ti-dNannar, given to the daughter of Nabonidus (Clay Misc-Inso 45 II: 8 and p. 67; 
 also Dhorme BA xi pp. 104 if AO 6444 11:13) suggests that in eases like those 
 here cited we have ofScial names, and that the passages should be so translated as to 
 convey this idea. The syllabic writing Bel(EN) -Sd-al-ti-dNannar shows that in the Neo- 
 Babylonian period the names were pronounced as Semitic. They may well have been 
 pronounced in Semitic also in earlier times. 
 
 ' The formula of BUL 59 reads mM urudu alam gu-la e dNannar-ra i-ni-in-tu. 
 
GRICE • CHRONOLOGY OF LARSA DYNASTY 
 
 16 
 
 15. mu 6 id An-ni-pdd-da i[n-si-ga] 
 AO 7025 I: 19. 
 
 16. mu e '^Innina sdg Ararma'''{- 
 
 ma) [ba-du\ 
 
 AO 702S I: 20. 
 
 17. mu e Im-gur-^Sin i[n-si-ga] 
 AO 7025 I: 21. 
 
 18. mu e '^Lugal-ki-BtJR-na {bw- 
 
 du\ 
 AO 7025 I: 22; Th-D LC 234." 
 
 19. mu dug ^En-lil-la '^Nannar-ta 
 
 ugnim . . . e-danna^ in-gi- 
 na u id T[u . . . ha-ba-al] 
 
 AO 7025 I: 23-24. 
 
 Year he [construct] ed the irriga- 
 tion ditch (es) of the canal 
 Ani-pada. 
 
 Year [he built] the temple of Ish 
 tar in Larsa. 
 
 Year he [construct] ed the irriga- 
 tion ditch (es) of Imgur-Sin. 
 
 Year [he built] the temple of 
 Lugal-ki-BUR-na. 
 
 Year when by the command of BUil 
 and Nannar the army . . . 
 he established an i-danna, and 
 when [he dug] the canal Tu 
 
 20. mu kd-gal-mah . . . 
 
 AO 7025 I: 25. 
 
 21. mu hdd-gal . . . 
 
 AO 7025 I: 26. 
 
 22. mu Du-un-nu-um'''' u id I- . . . 
 AO 7025 I: 27. 
 
 23. mu had-gal K[a\- . . 
 AO 7025 I: 28. 
 
 24. mu e <^Nin-l-si-in''^-na . 
 
 [ba-du] 
 AO 7025 I: 29. 
 
 25. mu 6-gi-na-ab-du' azag '^Nannar 
 
 . . . [ba-du] 
 AO 7025 I: 30. 
 
 26. mu alam ku-babbar ^Nannar-ra 
 
 [mu-un-na-an-dlm] 
 AO 7025 I: 31. 
 
 Year the lofty city gate . . 
 
 Year the great wall . . . 
 
 Year Dunum and the canal I- . . . 
 
 Year the great wall of K [a] . . . 
 
 Year [he built] the temple of Nin- 
 Isin . . . 
 
 Year [he built] the sacred deposi- 
 tory of Nannar . . . 
 
 Year [he made] a silver statue for 
 Nannar. 
 
 ' Th-D LC 234 is dated mu e Lugal-Tci-BtrH-na. 
 
 ' See Th-D BA XV p. 18 note 9. 
 
 ' Cf . votive cone of Gungunu Th-D VAB I pp. 206-7. 
 
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 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 27a. mu id '^Ba-il-he-gdl ba[-ba-aiy 
 AO 7025 I: 32. 
 
 27b. 7nu Gu-un-gu-nu-um ha^tiT 
 ScheU RT XXI p. 125. 
 
 Abisare 
 
 1. nm A-hi-sa-ri-e lugal 
 
 AO 7025 I: 34; See Johns FSB A xxxii p. 
 
 2. mu id Im-g^ir^''-^Inninw-Zaba- 
 
 lam''' ha-ha-aP'^ 
 AO 7025 I: 35; Th-D iC 235; See SeheU 
 
 3. mu alam hu-babhar e '^Nannar- 
 
 SM i-ni-in-tu-ri 
 AO 7025 I: 36. 
 
 4. mu id An-ni-pad-da ba-ba-al 
 AO 7025 I: 37. 
 
 5. mu us-sa id An-ni-pdd-da ba- 
 
 ba-al 
 AO 7025 I: 38. 
 
 6. mu id Hi-ri-tum sag Avar [ma''^] 
 
 ba-ba-al 
 AO 7025 I: 39. 
 
 7. mu id-mah ba-ba-al 
 AO 7085 I: 40. 
 
 8. mu alam "^gug ""za-gin su-du-a 
 
 e ^Nannar-su i[-ni-i7v-tu-ri] 
 AO 7025 I: 41. 
 
 9. mu ugnim l-si-in'''-na ^^Hukul 
 
 ba-an-sig 
 AO 7025 1:42. 
 
 10. mu en '^Babbar ba-hun-gd 
 AO 7025 1:43. 
 
 Year he [dug] the canal Bau-hegal. 
 Year Gungunum died. 
 
 11 years 
 
 (First) year of Abisare, the king. 
 274; Scheil BA XIV p. 153. 
 
 Year he dug the canal Imgur-Ish- 
 tar-Hallab. 
 nx XXXIV p. 109. 
 
 Year he brought a silver statue into 
 the temple of Nannar. 
 
 Year he dug the canal Ani-pada. 
 
 Year after he dug the canal Ani- 
 pada. 
 
 Year he dug at Larsa the canal 
 Hiritum. 
 
 Year he dug the Majestic canal. 
 
 Year he brought into the temple of 
 Nannar a statue entirely of 
 cornelian and lapis lazuli. 
 
 Year he smote with his weapon the 
 army of Isin. 
 
 Year he invested the high priest of 
 Shamash. 
 
 ' Cf . DIM id djBa-u-ri-sa-at ia-al Scheil BT xxxiv p. 103 ; and mu its-sa id dBa-u mu-ial 
 Seheil BA xiv p. 153. 
 
 'Was the formiila mu Gu-un-gu-nu ha-til "Year Gungunu died (ended?)," quoted 
 by Scheil, used for the fraction of a year after the death of Gungunu, as mu §i-U-dIM 
 nam-lugal-ta sir-ra seems to have been used for the fraction of a year after Warad-Sin 
 was placed on the throne of Larsa? (See above, p. 10.) 
 
 ^° Var : Se-ga-. 
 
 " Th-D LC 235 omits ha-ha-al. 
 
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 11. mu us-sa en ^Babhar ia-^pun-gd Year after he inyested the high 
 
 priest of Shamash. 
 AO 7025 I: 44; See Scheil BT XXXIY p. 109. 
 
 Sumu-ilu 29 years 
 
 1. mu Su-mu-ilu [lugal] 
 AO 7025 I: 46. 
 
 (First) year of Sumu-ilu, the king. 
 
 2. mu alam ku-iabiar e '^Babbar- Year he brought a silver statue into 
 
 su i-ni-m-iu-ri the temple of Shamash. 
 
 AO 7025 I: 47; See ScheU MT XXXIV p. 109. 
 
 3. mu [u]r-mah urudu min-a-bi 
 
 kd-s[ur 9]-ra '^Innina-su i-ni- 
 in-tu-ri 
 
 AO 7025 I: 48; of . U j, k. 
 
 4. mu A-ku-uz''^ ba-Jpul u ugnim 
 
 Ka-zal-lu''^ B'Hukul ba-an-sig 
 AO 7025 I: 49. 
 
 Year he brought into the . . . 
 gate of Ishtar two bronze lions. 
 
 5. mu id Lugal-^Zuen-na ba-ba-al 
 AO 7025 I: 50; cf. EFH 39 under U t. 
 
 6. mu en ^Baibar ba-J!,un-gd 
 AO 7025 I: 51. 
 
 7. mu us-sa en ^Babbar ba-hun-gd 
 AO 7025 I: 52. 
 
 8. mu uru''^ Ka-id-da ha-an[-dib] 
 AO 7025 I: 53. 
 
 9. mu us-sa uni^' Ka-id-da ba-an [- 
 
 dib] 
 AO 7025 I: 54. 
 
 10. mu us-sa-bi uru''^ Ka-id-da ba- 
 
 an[-dib] 
 AO 7025 I: 55. 
 
 11. mu ugnim KiP^ [s^Hukul ba-an- 
 
 sig] 
 AO 7025 I: 56. 
 
 12. mu us-sa ugnim Kis''^ [s'Hukul 
 
 ba-an-sig] 
 AO 7025 I: 57. 
 
 Year he devastated Akuz and smote 
 with his weapon the army of 
 Kazallu. 
 
 Year he dug the canal Sharru-Sin. 
 
 Year he invested the high priest of 
 Shamash. 
 
 Year after he invested the high 
 priest of Shamash. 
 
 Year he [took] the city Ka-ida 
 (:= Pi-narati). 
 
 Year after he [took] the city Ka- 
 ida (=: Pi-narati). 
 
 Year after (the year) after he 
 [took] the city Ka-ida (^ Pi- 
 narati). 
 
 Year [he smote with his weapon] 
 the army of Kish. 
 
 Year after [he smote with his 
 weapon] the army of Kish. 
 
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 13. mu us-sa-U ugnim KiP' [b'Hu- Year after (the year) after [he 
 
 kul ba-an-sig] smote with his weapon] the 
 
 AO 7025 I: 58. army of Kish. 
 
 14:. mu e A-AN-if)"-^ . . . Year the temple A-AiV- . . . 
 
 AO 7025 I: 59; See Johns PSBA xxxH p. 274. 
 
 15. mu id-sa e A-AN-i?) . . . Year after the temple A-^iV- . . . 
 AO 7025 1 : 60 ; See Johns PSBA xxxu p. 274. 
 
 16. mu iis-schbi e A-AN-{f) . . . Year after (the year) after the 
 
 temple A-AN- . . . 
 AO 7025 1:61; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 17. mu 4-kam-ma e A-AN-{?) . . . Fourth year (of the era in which) 
 
 the temple A-AN- . . . 
 AO 7025 1 : 62 ; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 18. mu 5-kam-ma e A-AN-{f) . . . Fifth year (of the era in which) 
 
 the temple A-A.N- . . . 
 AO 7025 I: 63; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 19. mu ''^Buranun-na [ha-ha-al] Year he dug the Euphrates. 
 AO 7025 I: 64. 
 
 20. mu us-sa ''^Buramm-na [ha-ba- Year after he dug the Euphrates. 
 
 al] 
 AO 7025 I: 65. 
 
 21. mu us-sa-hi ''^Buranun-na [ba- Year after (the year) after he dug 
 
 ba-al] the Euphrates. 
 
 AO 7025 I: 66. 
 
 22. mil ugnim Ka-zal-lu''* u . . Year [he smote with his weapon] 
 
 [B'Hukul ba-an-sig] the army of Kazallu and . . . 
 
 AO 7025 I: 67. 
 
 23. mu en ^Nannar ba-Jj,un-gd Year he invested the high priest, of 
 
 Nannar. 
 AO 7025 I: 68; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 24. mu us-sa en '^Nannar ba-hun-gd Year after he invested the high 
 
 priest of Nannar. 
 AO 7025 I: 69; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 25. mu us-sa-bi en '^Nannar ba-hun- Year after (the year) after he 
 
 gd invested the high priest of 
 
 Nannar. 
 AO 7025 I: 70; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 " Th-D SA XV pp. 6, 12 reads e-a dNanlnar . . .]. But Johns {loc. cit.) says: 
 "A number of tablets in Mr. Morgan's Collection in New York are dated ... by 
 
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 26. mu 4-kam-ma en '^Nannar ba- 
 
 ^un-ga 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 27. mu 5-kam-ma en '^Namnar hch 
 
 i,un-gd 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 28. mu 6-kam-ma en ''Nannar ia- 
 
 }i,un-ga 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274. 
 
 29. mu 7-ham-ma en '^Nannar ia- 
 
 Ipun-gd 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 274.^ 
 
 Fourth year (of the era in which) 
 he invested the high priest of 
 Nannar. 
 
 Fifth year (of the era in which) 
 he invested the high priest of 
 Nannar. 
 
 Sixth year (of the era in which) 
 he invested the high priest of 
 Nannar. 
 
 Seventh year (of the era in which) 
 he invested the high priest of 
 Nannar. 
 
 Nur-/M 
 
 1. mu Nu-ur-^IM lugal 
 MLC 1629; See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 281 
 
 a. mu B^gu-za zag-bi-us^^ guskin 
 
 ^Babbar-ra i-ni-iu-ri 
 WarTca l(Bu. 34a, Bu. 34"). 
 
 b(=a + l)." mu us-sa ^'^gu-za 
 zag^bi-us guskin m-du-a e 
 ^Babbar-m i-ni-m-tu-ra 
 
 BUL 151. 
 
 16 years 
 (First) year of Nxlt-IM, the king. 
 
 Year he brought into (the temple 
 of) Shamash a throne plated 
 with gold. 
 
 Year after he brought into the 
 temple of Shamash a throne 
 entirely plated with gold. 
 
 the years (up to the fifth) after £:(?) A-NI-ZA-EI BA-AN-TtG." It would seem 
 that the formulae to which Johns refers are the same as those mutilated here. 
 
 ^^ Johns {loc. dt.) says that tablets in the Morgan Library Collection are dated by 
 years up to the eighth after mu en dNannar ia-'^un-gd. 
 
 " The sign in the copies appears to be hi rather than ga (Read ga by Th-D BA xv 
 p. 19 note 23). Moreover M seems probable, by comparison with other passages in 
 which zag . . . ws occurs (See Langdon OLZ xvii pp. 417 ff). Langdon (loc. eit.) 
 suggests zag "side, beside" -|- m "stand." This seems very good for some of the 
 passages cited by Langdon; e. g., for the phrase in Clay Misc-Insc No. 28, zag-an-us, 
 for which Langdon suggests a&am emidu "to attain the side," as describing an 
 accidental collision while passing in the street (Note Clay's translation "jostle"). 
 But Langdon 's translation of this date formula, "Year when he caused to be brought 
 into [the temple of] Babbar a throne at whose side stood an azag-zi," seems less 
 fortunate. Zag (See Dl S Gl p. 219) = "outside" as well as "side," thus zag-hi-us 
 = "at its side" or "on its outside"; when accompanied by the name of a metal, 
 as here, the phrase zag-M-us might be translated "plated." 
 
 " Bu. 34 reads mu giigu-sa zag-hi-us dBabhar-ra. 
 
 '■'' That is, b is the year after a. 
 
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 c. mu Nu-ur-^IM lugal en ^Babbar 
 
 hor-hun-gd^'' 
 BUL 152; 153; 154. 
 
 Sin-idinnam 
 1. mu '^Sin-i-din-nam lugal 
 
 BUL 111. 
 
 a. mu '^Sin-i-din-nam^^ had-gal 
 Mas-gan-sahra^^ ba-du 
 
 Year Nur-/Jf, the king, invested 
 the high priest of Shamash. 
 
 6(?) years 
 
 (First) year of Sin-idinnam, the 
 king. 
 
 Year Sin-idinnam built the great 
 wall of Mashganshabra. 
 BUL 213, 214, 215, 216; TBC 3283, 3294, 3325, 4311, 5223, 5228; Th-D LG 231; 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 229 REH 13(?). 
 
 a.^" ?nu ugnim Nim''*-ma^'' u Za- 
 am-bi-ia lugal I-si-inf'^^'^ s^Hu- 
 kul ba-an-sig^^ 
 BUL 1 (?),=» 2, 3, 18, 36, 60, 76. 
 
 /?. See U c. 
 y. See U d. 
 S. See U r. 
 
 Year he smote with his weapon the 
 army of Elam and Zambia, 
 king of Isin. 
 
 " Formula abbreviated mu en dBab'bar ba-ltun-ga. This is identical with the formula 
 for the ninth year of Gungunu, the tenth of Abisare, and the sixth of Sumu-ilu. 
 
 ^ The name of the king, Sin-idinnam, is omitted in all texts except BUL 213. 
 
 ^^ This formula is conjecturally assigned to Sin-idinnam. Since Isin was the leading 
 city in southern Babylonia at this time, a victory over Isin may have been the cause 
 of Sin-idinnam 's claiming the title ' ' King of Sumer and Akkad. ' ' 
 
 " Var : Mr Nimki, Icur Nvmki-ma. 
 
 '^ The writing I-si-inki, with the common i sign, instead of NI = I has been found 
 up to the present time in texts of the time of the First Dynasty only in two Yale texts 
 {BUL 3 and 139) and in one unpublished tablet in the Morgan Library Collection. 
 
 '^ Var : ha-sig. 
 
 Formula abbreviated: mu ugnim Tcur Nimki-ma giiiukul ba-an-sig. The date formula 
 for the thirtieth year of Hammurabi is mu ugnim Ni/m-maki. But if the formula of 
 BUL 1, 2, 18, 36, 60, and 76 is, as seems likely from the similarity of the texts, an 
 abbreviated form of the date of BUL 3, a formula of a contemporary of Zambia of 
 Isin, the texts must all have been written earlier than the thirtieth year of !Hammurabi. 
 For Rim-Sin, the predecessor of Jammurabi on the throne of Larsa, conquered Damiq- 
 ilishu, king of Isin, who according to the Isin Dynastic List began to reign twenty 
 years after Zambia. 
 
 ^ The formula of BUL 1 is merely mu ugnim giHuTcul ha-an-sig. As it stands, it 
 could of course not be identified, but since the record on which it appears seems to 
 belong to the same series as BUL 2 and 3, it is reasonable to suppose that Nimki-ma 
 was omitted by a mistake of the scribe. 
 
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 Sin-iribam 2 years 
 1. mu '^Sm-i-ri-ha-am^^ lugal (First) year of Sin-iribam, the 
 
 king. 
 BVL 133, 155, 156, 157, 158; MLC 1283 (See Seheil OLZ viii pp. 350 f., ScheU MT 
 xxiv p. 25) ; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 220 RFH 2. 
 
 Sin-iqisham 5(?) years 
 1. mu ''Sin-i-qi-sd-am^^ lugal (First) year of Sin-iqisham, the 
 
 BUL 62, 159. king. 
 
 a. mu ^Sin-i-qi-sd-am lugal-e alani Year Sin-iqisham, the king, made 
 
 guskm ku-babiar ^Bablar-ra for Shamash a statue (or sta- 
 
 mu-na-dlm tues) of gold and silver. 
 
 Ohiera TJMBS VIII(l) 21(?), 22 (= Poebel HGT 78), 23. 
 
 b. mv, '^Sin-i-qi-sd-am lugal'^ alam Year Sin-iqisham, the king, brought 
 
 guskin 11 alam ku-iabbar''' e into the temple of Shamash 11 
 
 '^Babbar-ra^^ i-ni-m-tu^^ statues of gold and 1 statue 
 
 of silver. 
 BUL 160; Th-D BA XV p. 20 AO 6346, 6347. 
 
 e. mu '^Sin-i-qi-sd-am lugal-e . . . Year Sin-iqisham, the king, brought 
 
 alam Nibru''^^" alam '^Babbar into the temple of Shamash 
 
 '^Se-nir-da guskin su-du-a e ... a statue for Nippur, a 
 
 ^Babbar-da i-ni-in-tu-ra^^ statue of Shamash and She- 
 
 nirda entirely of gold. 
 BUL 61; Chiera UMBS Vni(l) 24 (— Poebel EGT 77). 
 
 '* Var : dSin-e-ri-iar-am,. 
 
 It is possible that the Sin-iribam of some of these texts is the king of Erech, con- 
 temporaneous with Warad-Sin, mentioned BUL 124: 15. 
 
 ^°In BUL 159, the king's name is written dSin-i-qi-tf or AS. Since tr has the value 
 Sam, and AS is equivalent to samu (Br. 6753), it is probable that the scribe intended 
 to write dSin-i-qi-Sam. 
 
 ^Var: omit dSin-i-qi-M-am lugal. 
 
 ^ The order of the last five words varies. Besides the order above, we find 11 alam 
 M-bahbar H 1 alam guskin and alam 11 TcA-babbar H alam 1 guskin. 
 
 ''Var: e dBabbar-aH. 
 
 ^Var: i-ni-tu-ri, i-ni-in-tur-ra. 
 
 " Var : Nibruki-su. 
 
 °^ Var : i-ni-tu-ri. 
 
 As Th-D BA XV p. 20 suggests, it is possible that the formulae b and c may represent 
 the same year. Of. also XI f . 
 
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 Sm-7M^2 1 year 
 1. mu Si-li-^IM lugal (First) year of Sili-IM, the king. 
 
 SUL ii7. 
 
 a. mu Si-li-''IM nam-lugal-ta sir- Year Sili-Zilf was deposed from the 
 
 ra^^ kingship. 
 
 EUL 8(?), 9, 10, 11, 54, 55, 56, 57; YBC 4726, 4729, 4846(?). 
 
 Warad-Sin 12 years 
 1. mu Warad-'^Sin lugal (First) year of Warad-Sin, the 
 
 RUL 12, 15. 
 
 king. 
 
 2. mu uM-sa Warad-'^Sin lugal Year after (the first year of) 
 
 Warad-Sin, the king. 
 nUL 161. 
 
 8. mu kisal-matj, e ^Nannar ba-du Year he built the lofty platform of 
 
 u 2 ^gu-za hara-mah gusUin^* the temple of Nannar, and 
 
 e-iara^su i-ni-in-tu-ri^^ brought into the shrine two 
 
 golden shrine-thrones. 
 MUL 118, 120, 162, 202: 2; Th-D BA XV p. 22 AO 6354, 6379, 6380 A. 
 
 9. mu ^Warad-^Sin lugal-e^' Year Warad-Sin, the king, brought 
 
 alam^'' Kv^du-ur-Ma-iu-uk into the temple of Shamash a 
 
 guskin/'^ su-du-a^" e '^Baihar- statue of Kudur-Mabuk en- 
 
 su i-ni-in-tu-ri*" tirely of gold. 
 
 ST7L 114, 119, 122, 128, 202: 4-5, 29; Th-D BA XV pp. 20-21 AO 6350, 6351, 6355; 
 Chiera VMBS VIII (1) 25 = Poebel BGT 80. 
 
 '^ In the Larsa Dynastic List (Clay Misc-Insc No. 32) the name of this king is written 
 ideographicaUy : MI-U-dIM; in the date formulae on business documents it is written 
 syllabically $i-li-dIM. 
 
 ^ Since §ili-JM reigned only one year, this latter formula was probably used only for 
 the fraction of a year after Kudur-Mabuk deposed §ili-7M and placed his son Warad-Sin 
 on the throne of Larsa; i. e., the accession year of Warad-Sin, as distinguished from his 
 first year. See BUL p. 17 for a fuller discussion. 
 
 " Var : omit guSki/n, or insert sH-dii-a. 
 
 " Formula abbreviated m« Tcisal-mafj, e dNannar ba-du or mu Tcisal-maJj, e dNannar. 
 
 ^°Var: dWarad-dSin lugal-e usually omitted. 
 
 "Var: a vertical wedge, probably signifying the numeral 1, inserted after alam. 
 
 °*Var: gusTcin inserted after alam instead of here. 
 
 ™ Var : omit su-du-a. 
 
 "Var: i-in-tu-ri, in-tu-ri, i-ni4n-tu-ra. 
 
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 10. mu ^Warad-'^Sm lugal-e^"- bdd- Year Warad-Sin, the king, built the 
 
 gal*^ Uruma'''{-ma)^^ ha^du** great wall of Ur. 
 
 SUL 121, 123, 163, 202: 8, 88; YBO 6112; Th-D LC 236; Th-D EA XV p. 23 AO 
 6353; Chiera UMB8 VIII(l) 27 = Poebel EGT 79; Figulla VS XIII 56; Meek 
 AJSL XXXIII p. 221 EFH 3, p. 239 RFH 30. 
 
 11. mu '^Warad-'^Sm lugal-e*^ Year Warad-Sin, the king, restored 
 Mrw*'"" Sag-PA-KAB-DU" ki- to its place the city Sag-PA- 
 bi-su*^ M-m-ge-a*^ KAB-DTJ. 
 
 BUL 58, 115, 116, 126, 129, 164, 202: 11, 43; Poebel BE Ti(2) 3; Chiera UMBS 
 viii(l) 26 = Poebel BGT 81; Th-D BA xv p. 23 AO 6352. 
 
 12. mu e ''Nin-x U.^ '"' sag Year he built the temple of Nin-x 
 Mas-gan-sabra''' mu-un-du-a^^ ... in Mashganshabra. 
 
 BUL 127, 130(?), 202: 13, 49, 207: 6; Th-D BA xv p. 23 AO 6356. 
 
 a. mu ^Warad-^Sin lugal-e^' 3 Year Warad-Sin, the king, brought 
 
 B'^gu-sa bara-mali,^^ guskin e three golden shrine-thrones 
 
 ^Nannar ^Nm-gaV^ ^Babbar- into the temple of Nannar, 
 
 ra" mu-ne-in-tu-ri-en^^ Ningal, and Shamash. 
 
 BUL 63(?), 82, 124, 125, 134, 135(?), 167(?); Poebel BE vi(2) 2; Th-D BA 'xv 
 
 p. 21 AO 6376; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 232 EFH 19, p. 233 EFH 21. 
 
 "Var: dWarad-dSin lugal-e usually omitted. 
 
 *^Var: gal omitted. 
 
 " Var : Urv/maki. 
 
 "Var: mu-du-a, or verb omitted. 
 
 "Var: dWarad-dSin lugal-e usually omitted. 
 
 *■ Var : uru. 
 
 "Var: Sag-PA-KAB-DU-GA, Sag-PA-KAB-DU ki. 
 
 * Var : Tci-ii. 
 
 " Var : g6-a. 
 
 °°Eead svm,un-na by Th-D BA xv p. 23. But the Yale texts appear to contain more 
 than na after TIL. 
 
 " Var : ha-du. 
 
 "^ Var : dWarad-dSin lugal-e usually omitted. 
 
 " Var : iara or pu-mafi, ' ' the lofty enclosure. ' ' 
 
 "Var: omit dNin-gal. 
 
 "Var: Instead of dBabhar-ra some texts have -H S dBahbar-sH or m e dBabiar-ra. 
 
 "Var: mu-ne-tu-ra, in-ni-tu-ri-en, m-ni-tu-ri, i-ni-va-tu-ri, mu-ne-in-tu-ri. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu 3 giSgu-ga pu-mal),. 
 
 Three Yale texts, marjied (?) in the above list of formulae, are dated mw 14 urudu 
 alam Nibruki H S giSgu-za bara-mal} gvskin Su-du-a e dBabbar-ra i-ni-in-tu-ri. This may 
 possibly be for the same year. The problem is rendered more complicated and difficult 
 by the fact that the formula fqr the "year after" is written in three ways, recording 
 the bringing into the temple of Shamash of (1) 14 statues and 3 thrones; (2) 14 
 
34 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 b(=a4-l). mu us-sa 3 ^i^gu-za Year after three golden shrine- 
 
 hara guskin . . - ^' thrones . . . 
 
 EUL 5(?), 25(?), 34, 66, 71(?). 
 
 c."^ mu kisal-mah^^ e '^Babiar^^ Year he built the lofty platform for 
 
 sag Ararma''^{-ma)'^'' ha-du the temple of Shamash in Lar- 
 
 . . . u "i^gti-za bara-mah e°^ sa, . . . and brought a 
 
 . . . i-ni-in-tu-ri'^^ throne into the lofty shrine of 
 
 the temple of . . . 
 BVL 7, 20, 24, 26, 27, 33, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 67, 70, 73, 77, 84(?), 85, 93, 104, 
 131, 165, 166; cf. Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 223 RFH 5, p. 241 RPH 33, under U h; 
 cf. also BUL 22, 39 under U i, and note to U i. 
 
 d. mu Warad-^Sin lugal-e^^ EN- Year Wai'ad-Sin, the king, invested 
 
 AN-E-UL^* en '^Nannar sag EN-AN-E-UL, the high priest 
 
 Uruma''' ha-hun-gd'^^ of Nannar in Ur. 
 
 BUL 28, 29, 250, 251; YBC 5724; Poebel BE vi(2) 1; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 228 
 RFH 12, p. 232 EFH 20. 
 
 e. mu JS-nim-mah^^ e ''Nannar Ju^'' Year he built J^-nun-maJi for the 
 
 u jEl-kalam-ta-^ii-gur"^ e ^Inni- temple of Nannar, and 
 
 na Zabalam,''^ ba-du^^ tl-kalam-ia-ni-gur, the temple 
 
 of Ishtar of Hallab. 
 BUL 253; Th-D BA xv p. 22 AO 6357; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 231 RFH 18; Grant 
 AJSL xxxiv pp. 200, 201. 
 
 statues; (3) 3 thrones. Three of the five Yale texts of the "year after" are injured; 
 the two formulae which are well preserved read mit us-sa 14 urudu alam Nihruki-sil 3 
 giSgu-za tara unu S-habljar-ra i-ni-m-tu-ri, and mu m-sa 3 gi^gu-za. 
 
 "' See above, note to W-S a. 
 
 "a The placing of this formula is new. It is proved to be of the reign of Warad-Sin 
 by the seal impression of BUL 165, which states that it is sealed with the seal of the 
 king. The seal reads: "Warad-Sin, king of Larsa, son of Kudur-Mabuk. " 
 
 "* Var : sd,g inserted. 
 
 "' Instead of e dBabhar, some texts omit e, others have e dBaiiar-sA or &-'babar{UB- 
 UD) -ra. 
 
 ""Var: Ararmaki, or omit Mg Ararmaki. 
 
 "' If RFH 33 (see under U h) belongs to this year, the temple whose name is destroyed 
 is that of Nannar. 
 
 "^ Most of the texts have abbreviated formulae, the briefest being mu Tcisal-m.afp 
 dBaihar ia-dH. 
 
 °° Var : Warad-dSin lugal-e usually omitted. 
 
 " See note to Gungunu 13. 
 
 °' Var : mu-hun-gd. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu EN-AN-E-UL en dNannar ia-hun-gd, mu en dNannar sdg 
 Urumaki ia-'^un-gd, and tom en dNannar 'ba-T}un-gd. 
 
 " Th-D EA XV p. 22 d reads gd-nun-mah. The sign could be either e or gd. But 
 the Yale records from Larsa and especially from Ur, which refer to the gi-mal of 
 t-nun-maf). (see BUL 15 1:5; 122: 14), and similar records which state that they were 
 
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 a. mu Ka-zal-lu''' la-guV Year he destroyed Kazallu. 
 
 MUL 4, 14, 16(?), 30, 31, 32, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 65, 68, 72, 78, 81, 88; YBC 
 3337(?); Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 222 RFH 4, p. 227 RFH 11(?) ; WarTca 85(?); Johns 
 P;SS^ xxxii p. 277 f(?). 
 
 Rim-Sin 61 years 
 
 1. mu Bi-im-'^Sin'^ lugal (First) year of Rim-Sin, the king. 
 
 BUL 103, 202: 14, 54, 207: 9, 36, 228; YBC 4857, 5757, 5771, et multa; Figulla 
 rS xiii 58 ; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 230 RFH 14 ; Th-D LC 233 ; Seheil BA xii p. 115 ; 
 Grant SCL Smith 255. 
 
 stored in the temple of Nannar, probably referred rather to the temple as a whole than 
 to a part of it. Moreover, by reading the word t-nim-mal,, we have in the date formula 
 the names of two temples, each followed by the name of the god to which it belonged; 
 i. e., t-nun-mad, the temple of Nannar, and M-halam-ia-ni-gur, the temple of Ishtar of 
 Hallab. 
 
 " Instead of e dNannar-SH, some texts omit either e or sH. 
 
 ™ Var : S-lcalam-ta-m-gHr-ru. 
 
 ™ Var : mu-un-du-a. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu t-nun-mafy e dNannar la-du (RFH 18). This formula is 
 possibly, as Meek suggests, of Nur-/lf, who recorded the building of :S-nun-mah in an 
 inscription published CT xxi pi. 29, 30070; the building of S-nun-maT}, in the reign of 
 Warad-Sin being mentioned in an inscription of Kudur-Mabuk, CT xxi 33, 90032. 
 
 ™ A number of the texts published in SUL which are dated by this formula are very 
 similar in form and general appearance to others known to be dated in the reign of 
 Warad-Sin. Among these is the group of texts relative to the 8A-GAZ, SUL 46, 47, 
 50-53, five of which are dated by this formula and one by Warad-Sin e, and all of 
 which are sealed with the seals of the same shatammu officers, each text having from 
 five to seven seal impressions. Moreover, records of this date BVL 4, 16, 30 were in 
 charge of Ibku-ZM, the same utullu officer who had charge of other records, one of 
 which is dated in the first year of Warad-Sin (BUL 15), and others in §ili-JM a, which 
 is probably the accession year of Warad-Sin (BUL 9, 10, 11, 55, 57). These facts, 
 considered in connection with the mention of Kazallu in an inscription of Kudur-Mabuk 
 which refers to Warad-Sin as king of Larsa (Th-D BA ix pp. 121 ff), furnish strong 
 reasons for thinking that the formula mw Ka-zal-luki ha-gul belongs to the reign of 
 Warad-Sin. 
 
 A variant formula reads mu hAd Ka-eal-luki ba-gul, another m« Ka-zal-luki giHukul 
 ba-s'ig. Three texts (BUL 16, WarJca 85, and Johns PSBA xxxii p. 277 f, which are 
 marked (?) in the list of formulae above) are dated m« bdd Ka-zal-luki ba-gul u ugnim-bi 
 sdg Ararmaki ba-a-sig "Year he destroyed the wall of Kazallu and defeated its army 
 in Larsa." (For sig see Dl S Gl p. 239 under sig 11 a.) This may be an expansion 
 of the other formula, or it may belong elsewhere. The references are all included here 
 for convenience. The mention of Larsa in connection with the smiting of an army in 
 a formula of the Larsa Dynasty is easily explained by supposing that the army of 
 Kazallu had invaded the territory of Larsa and was there defeated. Kazallu is men- 
 tioned in other dates of the Larsa Dynasty, in the fourth and the twenty-second years 
 of Sumu-Uu; and in the First Dynasty of Babylon in the thirteenth year of Sumu-abu, 
 the twentieth year of Sumula-ilu,- and the twelfth of Zabium. (See Schorr VrTc pp. 
 588, 584, and 586.) 
 
 "Var: dBi-vm-dSin and dBi-vm-Sin(ES). 
 
26 YALE OEIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 2. mu 6 HM. sag Ararma''*{-may^ Year he built the temple of IM in 
 
 e ^Bar-ul-e-gar-ra sag Zar-hi- Larsa and the temple of Bar- 
 
 lum''^''^ mu-un-du-a u urudu ulegarra in Zarbilum; and 
 
 alam Warad-^Sin lugal sdg brought into l&gal-barra a' 
 
 tl-gal-iar-ra-su i-ni-in-tu-ri'* bronze statue of "Warad-Sin, 
 
 the king. 
 
 nVL 199, 202: 15, 57, 207: 12, 44; YBO 5517, 5732, 6167; Lutz EBLL 94; Th-D 
 EA XV pp. 24-25 AO 6349, 6428, 6760. 
 
 3. mw 4 urudu alam Ku-du-ur-Ma- Year he brought into the temple 
 
 hu-uk e '^Nannar-su i-ni-in-tu- of Nannar four bronze statues 
 
 Hue '^Nin-mar-ki sag Bu-um- of Kudur-Mabuk, and built the 
 
 ma''^ mu-un-du-a''^ temple of Nin-mar-ki in Rum- 
 
 ma. 
 BUL 202:16, 61, and date, 207:15-16, 50-51; YBC 4447, 5532, 5687, 5696, 5759, 
 5820, 6589, 7039, 7306 (?), 7597. 
 
 4. mu e ^Innina '^Nannar u ^En-ki Year he built the temple of Innina, 
 
 sag Ararma''^{-ma)'''' mu-un- Nannar, and Enki in Larsa. 
 
 du-a''^ 
 BUL 202: 19, 207: 19 and date; YBO 4431, 5533, 5787, 6168, 6190, 6199, 6975, 6982, 
 6990, 7038, 7189; Warlca 98; Langdon Babyl vii p. 48 a; Th-D BA xv p. 24 AO 6363. 
 
 6. mu '^Ri-im-^Sin lugal-e'^ 2 uru- Year Rim-Sin, the king, brought 
 
 du^P alam Ku-du-ur-Ma-iu-uk into Egal-barra two bronze 
 
 u 1 urudu^^ na-ru-a sdg^^ statues of Kudur-Mabuk and 
 
 S-gal-iar-ra-sii^^ i-ni-in-tu-ri^* one bronze stele. 
 
 BVL 137; YBO 5682, 5794, 5815, 6325, 7716, 7916; Ohiera VMBS •nii(l) 34 — 
 
 Poebel HGT 82, Ohiera 39; Langdon Bahyl vii p. 42 b; Th-D MA xv p. 25 AO 6759: 3."" 
 
 7. mu e '^Bdr-ul-e-gar-ra sdg Year he built the temple of Bar- 
 
 " Var : Ararmaki. 
 
 '" Var : Zar-M-lvm-ma. 
 
 "Formula abbreviated mu e dIM sdg Ararmaki ba-du and mu e dim sdg Ararmaki 
 e dBdr-ul-e-gar-ra sdg Zar-hi-lumki mu-un-du-a. 
 
 '° Var : BH-um-maki. 
 
 " Formula abbreviated mu 4 urudu alam Ku-du-ur-Ma-lu-uk e dNannar-sH, i-ni-in-tu-ri 
 
 "Var: sdg Ararmaki{-ma) omitted. 
 
 " Var : mu-du-a. 
 
 ™Var: dBi-im-dSin lugal-e omitted. 
 
 ""Var: urudu omitted. 
 
 ^Var: omit 1 urudu, or 1, or urudu. 
 
 '°Var: sdg omitted. 
 
 ^Var: S-gal-har-ra, tl-har-ra-SA. 
 
 ''Var: i-ni-tu-ri, i-ni-in-tu-ra. 
 
 "= AO 6759 published Scheil OLZ xvii p. 246. See also Th-D BA xv p. 25. The same 
 tablet mentions the formula Eim-Sin 7. 
 
GEICE • CHRONOLOGY OF LABSA DYNASTY 27 
 
 Adab''' mu-un-du-a^^ ■H alam ulegarra in Adab, and made a 
 
 guskim ''8in4-<Un-nam lugal golden statue of Sin-idinnam, 
 
 Ararma^*{-ma)^'' mu-un-dim- king of Larsa. 
 
 ' BUL 140, 143, 144, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175; YBO 5519, 5520, 5528, 
 6148, 6470, 6663, 6839, 6974, 7025, 7258; AO 7025«» III: 1-2; WarTca 101 = iv JJ 36 2; 
 AO 6759: 5 ana date'"; Th-D BA xv p. 25 AO 6348, 6764; Johns FSB A xxxu p. 276 i."" 
 
 8. mu kd-gal-a?'^ mm-Or-'bi sdg"'^ Year he built two city gates in 
 
 Mas-gan-salra''^^^ mu-un- Masbganshabra, and con- 
 
 du-a^* u e a-sdg Sdg-tum-ma structed the irrigation ditch- 
 
 4 kaskal-gid-di^^ mu-un-si-ig- (es) of the canal Sha(g)tuin- 
 
 ga^^ ma for four double leagues. 
 
 BUL 99, 112, 113, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 209, 210, 211, 
 
 212; YBO 4416; WarTca 91; Langdon Bahyl vii p. 47 a, p. 48 b, e; Johns PSBA 
 
 xxxii p. 276 j; AO 7025 III: 3-4; Th-D BA xv p. 26 AO 6368, 6763. 
 
 9. mu '^Ri-im-^Sin lugal-e^'' e ^En- Year Rim-Sin, the king, built the 
 
 ki sdg^^ Uruma^'{-ma)^^ u e temple of Enki in Ur, and the 
 
 ^Nin-lil nim-ma sdg iJ-^Nin- lofty temple of Ninlil in fl-Nin- 
 
 mar-ki^"" mu-un-du-a^"^ marki. 
 
 " Var : mu-du-a. 
 
 *'Var: Ararmaki{-ma), or lugal Ara/rmaki(-ma) omitted. 
 
 "Var: mu-un-dlm, mvrdim-ma, ha-dim-ma, mu-un-dH-a; the last form, occurring on 
 YBO 5528 and AO 6764, both vmpublished, is probably to be regarded in both cases as 
 a mistake of the scribe. See Th-D BA xv p. 25. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu e dBdr-ul-e-gar-ra Mg Adabki mu-un-dH-a. 
 
 " PubUshed by Th-D BA xv pp. 52 ff. 
 
 ""On the same tablet, belonging to the Morgan Library Collection, MLC 1613, are 
 mentioned the formulae Rlm-Sin 8 and 9. 
 
 "Var: M-gal. 
 
 '"Var: s&g omitted. 
 
 ■"■ Var : Mas-gan-sabra. 
 
 '* Var : mu-dH-a. 
 
 '"Var: Tcaskal-gid; the reading Icaskal-gid has been retained here, instead of danna 
 as in the formula for Gungunu 19 because of the fact that three texts are written 
 hasTeal-gid-di. 
 
 "Var: mu-un-si-ga, mu-si-ig-ga, mu-si-ga, mu-un-si-ig. 
 
 Formula abridged mu Tcd-gal-a min-a-hi sdg Mas-gan-sahraki mu-un-du-a or mu Tcd-gal-a 
 min-a-bi Mas-gan-Sabra. 
 
 " Most of the texts omit dBi-vm-dSin lugal-e. 
 
 "Var: idg omitted. 
 
 " Var : Vrv/maki, or ba-dH inserted after Urumaki. 
 
 ""Var: Determinative ki inserted in AO 6363; sdg S-dNin-mar-U omitted Langdon 
 Babyl vii p. 45 e. 
 
 '" Var : mu-dH-a. 
 
 Formula abridged mu e dBn-Tci sdg Urumaki(-ma) ba-du. 
 
28 YALE ORIENTAL SEEIES • EESEAECHES IV-1 
 
 SUL 201; TBC 4417, 4418, 5378, 5449, 5848, 6198, 6231, 6980, 7028, 7191; AO 
 7025 111:5-6; WarTca 76 (?),"« 77, 93; Langdon Babyl vii p. 45 e,~p. 48 d; Chiera 
 VMBS Tiii(l) 46, 58 = Poebel BGT 88, 80 = Poebel BGT 84; Ni 434 cited SA 
 viii p. 84 note 3; Johns FSBA xxxii p. 276 k; Th-B BA xv p. 26 AO 6367, 6369, 6377. 
 
 10. mu ^Ri-im-^Sin lugal-e^"^ id Year Eim-Sin dug the Lagash canal 
 
 Sir-hur-la''''^''* zag a-ab-ha- to the sea. 
 
 svP-"^ mu-un-ia-al-ld^°^ 
 BUL 136, 142, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191; YBC 5309, 5788, 6214, 6215, 6570, 6636, 6729, 
 7093, 8729, 8745; AO 7025 III: 7; Th-D BA xv p. 27 AO 6370, 6371, 6372; Langdon 
 Balyl vu p. 48 e; Poebel EGT 87; Pinches FSBA xxxix p. 70 pi. viii 22. 
 
 11. mu idd-gaV'' uru'''^"^ Gar-ra- Year he built the great wall of the 
 
 ^Babhar^"^ gu^'^Buranun-na}'^'' city Ishkun-Shamash on the 
 
 la-dv}'^^ bank of the Euphrates. 
 
 BUL 132, 145, 146, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 208; TBO 5585, 6207, 7276, 
 
 7277, 7309; AO 7025 111:8; WarTca 50 = Mei ABB 34, WarTca 90, 97; Th-D BA 
 
 XV pp. 27-28 AO 6364, 6365. 
 
 12a. mu us-sa idd uru''^ Gar-ra- Year after he built the wall of 
 <^Bahhar ha^dii Ishkun-Shamash. 
 
 BUL 231. 
 
 12b. mu 2 urudu alam suV^^-hi^^^ Year he brought into the temple of 
 
 Bi-im-^Sin lugaV^^ e '^Baliar- Shamash two praying statues 
 
 su i-ni-in-tu-rP-^^ of Eim-Sin, the king. 
 
 £r/X200; TBC 5754, 6646, 7074; AO 7025 III: 9-10; Worfca 5, 6, 15, 16; Langdon 
 
 Bahyl vii p. 45 c. 
 
 ™In WarTca 76 the name of the city looks more like that of Larsa than that of Ur; 
 if Larsa is intended, the formula would be a variant of Eim-Sin 4, as Thureau-Dangin 
 says, BA xv p. 27. 
 
 "'Most texts omit dBi-im-dSin lugal-e. 
 
 "*Var; Sir-tur-la. 
 
 "'^ Var : a-ah-sH. 
 
 ^°°Var: mu-ia-al-ld, mu-un-ta-al-la, mu-'ba-ld, mu-ha-al, mu-un-ia-ld, mu-un-'ba-al, 
 ia-ha-al. 
 
 "'Var: gal omitted. 
 
 ^"Var: uruki omitted. 
 
 "* Var : dBab har-gar-ra. 
 
 "°Var: gu idBuranurirna omitted. 
 
 "^Var: mu-un-du-a, mvrdu-a, or the verb omitted entirely. 
 
 '•^ Written KA for EA with KU inserted. 
 
 "'Var: sub-sub-M, or sub-ii frequently inserted after Eim-Sin instead of before it. 
 
 "'Var: lugal omitted. 
 
 "'Var: i-ni-tvrri, in-tu-ri. 
 
GEICB • CHEONOLOGT OF LARS A DYNASTY 39 
 
 13. mu nin-dingir ^IM sdg IM''^ Year he invested the high priestess 
 ba-lj.un-gd^'^^ of the god IM in ZM**. 
 
 BUL 232; YBO 5854, 6224, 7194, 7711; AO 7025 III: 11. 
 
 14a. mu us-sa nm-dingir HM sag Year after he invested the high 
 ZJf*' ia-}i,un-gd priestess of the god IM in IM''K 
 
 BUL 233; YBC 4905. 
 
 14b. mu bdd-gaV" uru''^^^^ Is-ku- Year he built the great wall of 
 un-'^N e-uru-gal^'^^ ha-du}^^ Ishkun-Nergal. 
 
 MVL 234, 235; YBC 5360, 5575, 5587, 6206, 6221, 7267; AO 7025 III: 12; Warha 
 88; Figulla VS xiii 57; Th-D BA xv p. 28 AO 6388, 6389. 
 
 15. mu ugnim Unug''^ t-si-mfi^ BIN- Year he smote with his weapon 
 
 TIB-KI Ba-hi-qum 8u-ti-um- Brech, Isin, Babylon, Kabi- 
 
 ma^^^ u Warad-NE-NE lugal qum, Sutium, and Warad-iV^jEJ- 
 
 Unug''^ s^Huhul ia-an-sig^^" NE, king of Erech. 
 
 BUL 141, 147; AO 7025 III: 13-15; Johns PSBA xxxu p. 276 h; Th-D BA xv p. 29 
 AO 7034. 
 
 16. mu Ka-id-da^^^ u uruF'^ Na-za- Year when with his mighty weapon 
 
 rum^"^ B^Hukul kal-ga-ni-ta^^^ he took Ka-ida (= Pi-narati) 
 
 in-dib-ha}" and the city Nazarum. 
 
 BVL 236, 237, 238; YBC 4437 (?), 5364, 5832, 5850, 5852, 6182, 6202, 7034, 7201 (?), 
 
 8009; AO 7025 III: 16; Wa/rTca 94; Johns PSBA xxxU p. 277 1; Th-D BA xv p. 29 
 
 AO 6374, 6394. 
 
 ™ The Louvre prism, AO 7025, preserves very slight traces of this formula, so that 
 it can be identified for the first time from Yale tablets. 
 
 "' Var : gal omitted. 
 
 ^"Var: uruH omitted. 
 
 "" Var : Gar-ra-dNS-uru-gal, dNe-ur'A-gal-gar-ra. 
 
 '"Var: "mu-un-d'&-a. 
 
 ^"Var: Su-ti-umki, Su-tu-wnki. 
 
 ^'^ Var : ha-sig. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu ugnim TJnugki 1-si-inki DIN-TIB-KI giHuTcul ia-an-sig and 
 mu ugrjAm Vnugki giltukul Ixi-slg. The fact that 'WsLradi-NE-NE, king of Erech, known 
 from various texts dated in his reign (e. g., YBC 6768; Th-D VAB 1 p. 238, text AO 
 3744, unpublished, and a tablet in the private possession of ScheU — cf. OLZ viii 351 — ) 
 was reigning in the fifteenth year of Rim-Sin is shown for the first time by the Yale 
 tablets which give the fuU formula for this year. 
 
 ™Var: Ka4cl-daki, Ka-id-daki mes, Ka-id-dameS ii, Ka-id-daaun^ uruki Ka-id-da, 
 Korid-damei. This variation may be due to the fact that the city was probably called 
 by its Semitic name, Fi-ndrdtim. 
 
 ^^ Var : urul^k 
 
 ™ Var : Na-za-ru-um. 
 
 '"Var: hal-ga; giHukul Tcal-ga-ni-ta omitted by most texts. 
 
 ""Var: ia-an-dih, la-an-dih. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu Ka-id-da in-dib-ha, or mu Ka-id-da ia-gul. 
 
30 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • EESEAECHES IV-1 
 
 17. mu id Edm-na id Jie-gdl-la^^^ Year he dug to the sea the canal of 
 
 zag a-ab-ia-su^^' mu-un-ta-al- the Plain, the canal of abun- 
 
 U}^" dance. 
 
 SUL 239, 240, 241; TBC 5765, 6188, 6191, 6192, 6195, 6210, 6211, 6213, 6217, 6595, 
 6827, 7036, 7216, 7715, 7902, 7907, 7908; AO 7025 III: 17; MguUa VS sdii 59; Th-D 
 BA XV p. 30 AO 6373, 6385, 6391, 7035. 
 
 18. mu uru''*^^'^ Im-gur-'^Bil-gi''*^^^ Year when with the mighty weapon 
 
 u uru''^^^^ Zi-ih-na-tum''^^^^ given by EllU he took the city 
 
 B^Hukul kal-ga '^En-lil mu-un- Imgur-Gibil and the city Zib- 
 
 na-an-sum-ma-ta^^* in-dib- natum. 
 ha}'" 
 
 SVL 107; TBC 6172, 6203, 7312, 7698; AO 7025 III: 18-19; Warha 96, 99; FiguUa 
 VS xiii 94, 95; Th-D BA xv pp. 30-31 AO 6358, 6766. 
 
 19. mu ^J-su-'^Zuen-na'''^^^ m tj-zar- Year when with the mighty weapon 
 
 pa-ra''*^^^ s^tukul kal-ga <^En- given by EUil he took Bit- 
 
 lil mu-un-na-an-sum-ma-ta^^* Gimil-Sin and Uzarpara. 
 
 in-dib^'''-ia 
 BUL 243, 252; TBC 5561, 6837, 7268, 8629; AO 7025 111:20-21; Th-D BA xv 
 p. 31 AO 6395; ef. RFH 39 under U t. 
 
 20. mu ^'^Idigna id dingir-ri-e-ne Year he dug to the sea the Tigris, 
 
 nam-he-tum^^^ zag a-ab-ia-sii the river of the gods, which 
 
 mu-ba-al-ld^'^ brings abundance. 
 
 BVL 244, 245; TBC 5737, 5744, 5761, 5770, 5806, 5851, 5853, 6422, 6637, 6648, 
 
 6649, 6650, 6651, 7212, 7246; AO 7025 111:22; Warha 20, 21 = Mei ABP 44; 
 
 Langdon Babyl vii p. 45 g. 
 
 21. TOM Ki-sur-ra^^^*" Ararma'''- Year he took Kisurra for Larsa, 
 
 ^Var: }!.e-gdl. 
 
 ^Var: zag a-ab-ba-sil omitted. 
 
 '^ Var : mu-ia-al-lA. 
 
 '"Var: uru; or uniii omitted. 
 
 ''^Var: the determinative ki omitted. 
 
 '^ Var: Zi-ib-na-a^tumki, Zi-ib-na-tum. 
 
 "* Var : giitukul Tcal-ga dMrirlU mu-un-na-an-sum-morta usually omitted, or only gUtulcul 
 Tcal-ga included. 
 
 '"■Var: in-dib, ba-cm-dib, ba-dib-ba{!). 
 
 ""Var: tr-za-ar-pa-raki, tr-za-ar-bar-raki. 
 
 "'Var: dih. 
 
 "°Var: ncum-Jj.e-t'wm omitted. 
 
 ""Var: mu-un-ba-dl-ld, mu-un-ba-ld, mu-ba-al, mu-ba-al-la, mu-un-ba-al. 
 Formula abbreviated mu Uldigna mu-ba-al. 
 
 '" Var : the determinative *» omitted ; idg occasionally inserted. 
 
GEICE • CHRONOLOGY OF LAHSA DYNASTY 31 
 
 sw"i ia-dib-ia^*^ u eiHukul and with the mighty weapon 
 
 kalr-ga-ni-ta^^^ ^En-Ul mu-un- given by EUil he devastated 
 
 wo-swm-ma-te"* Bdd'''^*^ ha- Durum. 
 
 BUL 203, 204; YBO 3266, 5148, 5572, 5760, 5763, 5803, 6261, 7583, 8074; AO 7025 
 III: 23-24; Th-D BA xv p. 32 AO 6359; Wa/rTca 17, 18 = Mei ABP 108; Langdon 
 Baiyl vii p. 45 d; TiguUa V8 xiid 60, 61. 
 
 22. mu BiHukul kal-ga ^En-lil mu- Year when by the mighty weapon 
 
 na-an-sum-ma-ta^^'' Unug'''-ga given by EUil he devastated 
 
 mu-un-hul-a erim d-talp-li Brech, his hand seized the 
 
 SM-wi"* sd-M-in-dug-ga ugu soldiers its defence, for the 
 
 nam-lu gdl-ii su-gar mu-gar- people of that city he estab- 
 
 J"*^^* lished mercy. (Or perhaps 
 
 "upon the people of that city 
 he laid tribute.") 
 BUL 79; YBC 5041, 5569, 6151, 6176, 7257; AO 7025 111:25-27; Th-D BA x\' 
 p. 32 AO 7046; See Scheil BA xii p. 200, No. 4. 
 
 23. mu dug-ga zi-da Afia^"" '^En-lU Year when by the righteous com- 
 
 ^En-hi-ga^ta id ul-du-a-ta^^'^ mand of Anu, EUil, and Bnki, 
 
 mu-ii nu sd-a}'"- sib Bi-im- the shepherd Rim-Sin dug the 
 
 ^Sin mu-un-ba-al-W^^ id El- canal which from ancient days 
 
 la}^^^ mu-bi bi-in-sd-a uru''' had had no name, called its 
 
 ^"Var: Ararmalii(-ma) ; -sH or Ararmaki-sH frequently omitted. 
 
 '"Var: ta-an-dii (OT d{b), mu-un-na-lcur-ra "he bound, added"; occasionally no 
 verb here. 
 
 ^" Var : TcaX-ga. 
 
 '"Var: mu-na-swm, mu-na-sum-ma-ta, mu-un-na-an-sum-ma-ta; in BUL 203 the 
 formula ends with this word. 
 
 '*Var: BM-dingirki = D'Htr-ilu in Warlca 18. 
 
 '"Var: ha-}iul, ha-an-}j/ul-a, mu-un-lj,ul-a, mu-norlj/ul-a, mvrfiul- . . . 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu Ki-sw-raH ta-cm-dib H, Bddki mu-un-hul-a (AO 6359 B) ; 
 mu Ki-sw-ra H Bddki ia-an-dih (YBC 8074) ; mv, Ki-sw-raki ba-an-dih (WarTca 17) ; 
 mu Ki-sur-ra (FiguUa VS xiii 61) . 
 
 "'Var: mu-un-na-sum-ma-ta, mu-na-sum-ma-ta, mu-na-an-sum-a-ta. 
 
 '" Var : M-m-a. 
 
 "° Var : mu-un-gar-ra. 
 
 Formula abbreviated mu Unugki ia-dii-ia. 
 
 ^^ Ana is omitted in the contracts; included only in the prism, AO 7025, in which 
 phrases are habitually altered to be identical with other sitnilar formulae. 
 
 "'Var: ul-a-ta. 
 
 "^ Written NAD-a in BUL 220. 
 
 ""Var: mu-ha-al, mu-un-ia-al. 
 
 '"aVar: El. 
 
32 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • RESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 as-as-6i-sM^^* gan dagal-la bi- name the Shining canal, for 
 
 in-tah-e^^^ all his cities added wide arable 
 
 fields. 
 Bf/i 217, 220; YBC 5045, 6986, 7248, 7255, 7264, 8386; AO 7025 III: 28-32; Poebel 
 BE vi(2) 5; Th-D EA xv p. 33 AO 6424; Grant SCL Smith 266, 269. 
 
 24. mu dug^^^ Ana ''En-lil ^En-hi- Year when by the command of 
 
 ga-ta '^Buranun-na?-^'' ti-igi- Ann, EUil, and Bnki, the right- 
 
 da^^^ azag-ga <^Nannar-ge^^* eons shepherd Eim-Sin dug 
 
 x-tum}^" E-kur-sv}^'^ es nam- from Erech to the sea the 
 
 ti-la-ge sib zid '^Bi-im-'^Sm-e^^^ Euphrates, the shining ves- 
 
 hi Unug'''-ga^^^ zag a-ab-ba- sel( ?) of Nannar, which brings 
 
 su^^* mu-un-ba-at-la^"^ gu-bi-ta ... to Bkur, the dwelling 
 
 gan dagal-la bi-in-tah-e^^^ of life; from its bank wide 
 
 a-da^^'' uru JJruma''^{-ma)- arable fields he added ; abund- 
 
 SM^"^ im-mi-in-gar-ra^^^ ant water for Ur he provided. 
 
 RUL 149, 150; YBC 3384, 5855, 6042, 6154, 6223, 6294, 6992; AO 7025 III: 33-39; 
 
 Poebel BE vi(2) 4; Ni 2002, cited BA viii p. 84 note 3; Warka 106; Langdon Bahyl 
 
 vii p. 45f5 Th-D BA xv p. 33 AO 7045. 
 
 25. mu dug-ga Ana ^En-lil ''En-ki- Year when by the command of 
 
 ga-ta id Mas-tab-ba"" a-nag"^ Anu, EUil, and Enki, Rim-Sin, 
 
 "* Supplied from Yale texts. 
 
 ^ Formula abbreviated mu dug-ga zi-da dEn-lil dEn-M-ga-ta id El-la mu-un-ia-al-ld, 
 mu dBi-im-dSin lugal id El mu-'ba-al, and mu id El murim-ia-al. 
 
 "° Var : KA-har-ra. 
 
 "" Var : Bu-ra-na. 
 
 "*Var: ti-Jci-da. See Th-D BA xv p. 34; he does not translate, and the translation 
 of tigida given here is only conjectural. 
 
 ^ Var : dNannar-ta. 
 
 ""Var: <?« in BPL 149: 10. 
 
 "" Var : S-lcur, S-Tcur-ra. 
 
 '°^ Var : Bi-im-dSin. 
 
 "'" Wrongly read Ararma by Th-D BA xv p. 33, from a mutilated text. Var: 
 Unug-a-KU. 
 
 '** Var : a-ab-su. 
 
 ""'Var: mu-lia-al-la, mu-ia-al, mvria-ld, ba-ba-al. 
 
 ^^ Gu-bi . . bi-in-tafy-e : this clause expanded in AO 7025 and 7045 A to gUrhi 
 agar-gal-gal-la im-ta-e-a gan zid hi-in-dagal-la-a, of equivalent meaning. BT7L 150 gives 
 i-im-ta-bal{1) instead of bi-in-taJp-e. 
 
 "'Var: a-dug "good water." 
 
 ™ Var : Vrumaki-sil. 
 
 ""Var: i-im-mi-gar-ra, i-mi-gar-ra. 
 
 Formula abbreviated in many ways, the shortest being m,u idBuranttn-na mu-la-ld. 
 
 ™Var: Mas-tab-ia-g[S]. 
 
 "'Written KA. 
 
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 33 
 
 uku dagal-la-su gal-la gu 
 
 the man who possesses insight, 
 whose' wisdom is surpassing, 
 dug to the sea the Mashtabba 
 canal, which provides drinking 
 water for numerous people, 
 whose favorable bank furnishes 
 abundance of grain(?); all 
 its land to arable fields he 
 turned. 
 BUL 221, 222, 223:2-5; YBC 3264, 3293, 4494, 5043; WarJca 86; SoheU BA xii 
 
 p. 199; AO 7025 III: 40-46; Chiera VMBS viii(l) 32 = Poebel HGT 90, 36 = MGT 
 
 91, 79 = HGT 89; TiguUa VS xiii 98. 
 
 sd"^-a-M }ie-gal ^Asnan gar- 
 gar-ra"^ sih zid ''Bi-im-'^Sin"* 
 lu"^ igi-gal tug ba-an-da-W^ 
 dirig-ga zag a-ab-ha-su mu- 
 un-ba-al-W'' [ag] ar-ds-ds-bi 
 gan-zid-de-es bi-in-tu-ri"^ 
 
 26. mu d-mah Ana ^En-lil '^En-ki- 
 ga-ta uru''^"^ Dam-qi-i-li-su 
 d-da/m zag-su-dib-bi^^" 1-si- 
 in^^-kd^^'^ sib zid ''Bi-im-^Sin 
 in-dib-ba^^^ . . . -ra lH . . . 
 Ararma^* ( -ma ) -sit bi-vn-tu-ri 
 [u] d ul-a-ta u-ma-a-ni mu-un- 
 
 Year when by the exalted power of 
 Anu, Ellil, and Enki, the right- 
 eous shepherd Rim-Sin took 
 the city of Damiq-ilishu, the 
 inhabitants ... of Isin, 
 brought into Larsa . . ., 
 established forever his victory. 
 
 gub-ba^^'' 
 BUL 223: 7-10; YBC 3296, 5377, 5720, 5742, 7307, 7786, 8685; AO 7025 III: 47-51; 
 WarTca 23; Th-D BA VIII p. 82 AO 5478; Seheil BA xii p. 200 No. 3; Langdon 
 Babyl vii p. 45 a; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 14, 17, 48, 49; Th-D BA xv p. 35 AO 6360. 
 
 27. mu dug zid^^^ Ana ^En-lil ^En- Year when the righteous command 
 
 ki-ga-ia id ul-ta ba-ra gdl-la of Anu, Ellil, and Enki, the 
 
 "^ The sign seems to be Ba W No. 143. See Dl S Gl pp. 230, 242. BUL 222 gives 
 only sa-H or si-a-ii. Perhaps the idea of fertility is suggested by ' ' favorable. ' ' The 
 Yale texts give clearly gu for the sign read BI(?) by Th-D BA xv p. 35, and probably 
 M for the sign read by him Gtr{?). See Scheil's copy, BA xii p. 199. 
 
 ""Var: gar-gar, gar-gar-ra-dm. 
 
 "*Var: dBi-im-dSin-e. 
 
 ™ BUL 222 gives H instead of nun supplied by Th-D BA xv p. 8. 
 
 "' Var : handa-'bi. 
 
 '"Var: mu-}>a-al, mu-ioAA, rmt-ha-al-ld, ha-ha-al. 
 
 "" Formula abbreviated in many ways, the shortest being mu id Mas-tai-la mu-ia-al. 
 
 "• Var : uru. 
 
 '"Var: eag-s-u-li; zag-su-ia. 
 
 '"Var: l-si-in-na-Tca, 1-si-in-na, t-si-inlii. 
 
 ''"Var: ba-an-dib, in-dib-ha, mu-un-dib-ha, mu-dib-ba, mu-un-dib, mu-dib-bi, mu-un- 
 dib-bi. 
 
 "'Formula abbreviated in many ways, the shortest being mu uruki Dam-qi-i-U-m 
 ba-an-dib. 
 
 "'Both BUL 242 and Figulla VS xiii 99 give dug zid instead of dug-ga supplied by 
 Th-D BA XV p. 8. 
 
34 YALE OEIENTAL SEEIES • EESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 he-gdl-tum Arama'''{-ma)-su righteous shepherd Eim-Sin 
 
 sib zid ^Bi-im-'^Sin-mu-un-ia- dug a canal which from ancient 
 
 al-ld"^^^ id Nig-si-sd mu-ni bi- days had not existed, which 
 
 in-sd-a . . . [ga]l-la mu-bi brings abundance to Larsa; 
 
 PA^^^-bi-in-e-a^^'' named it the Canal of Justice, 
 
 and forever made his name 
 shine forth. 
 BVL 138, 229, 230, 242; YBG 5261; AO 7025 111:52-56; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 
 33 = Poebel SGT 85, 35(?), 42 = EGT 86; Soheil BA xii p. 200 No. 5; EiguUa VS 
 xiii 99. 
 
 28. mu dug Ana '^En-Ul ^En-ki-ga- Year when by the command of 
 
 ta e id KA-NUN-DI ul-ia Anu, Ellil, and Enki, Eim-Sin, 
 
 ba-ra si-ga gan {?)gi''^^ dagal- the obedient shepherd, from ( ? ) 
 
 la gan zid nu gal-la '^Bi-im- the great mountain to the sea 
 
 '^Sin sib gis-iug kur-gal-la igi constructed the irrigation 
 
 a-ab-ba-sH uku dagal uru ditch (es) of the canal KA- 
 
 in-si-ga . . . [gan-dagal]-la NUN-DI, which had never 
 
 im-ta-e-a^^' been constructed, so that for 
 
 a wide area('?) there had not 
 been arable land, for(?) the 
 numerous people of the city ; 
 . . . wide fields he made 
 extend. 
 BUL 246, 247, 248; YBG 3282, 4211, 4249, 5165, 6777; AO 7025 III: 57-62; Chiera 
 UMBS viii(l) 51; Th-D BA xv pp. 35-36 AO 6402. 
 
 29. mu dug-ta Ana '^En-lil ''En-ki- Year when by the command of 
 
 ga-ta Zar-bi-lumfi^ gan{?)- Anu, Ellil, and Enki, the faith- 
 
 gu{?)-kd^'"' ud-na-me bad nu ful shepherd Elm-Sin built the 
 
 mu-un-diL-a sib gi-na Bi-im- wall of Zarbilum, a region of 
 
 "' Var : mu-ba-al-ld, mu-ia-al, ia-ia-al. 
 
 ^"Ifl S Gl p. 209 suggests J}ad as a possible reading for PA. 
 
 "7 j^ormula abbreviated in various ways, of two principal groups : mii dug zid Ana 
 dEn-lil dEn-Tci-ga-ta id ul-ta ha-ra gal-la, and mu id Nig-si-sd mu-ha-al-ld. 
 
 ^^ gi = land. Dl S Gl p. 86. 
 
 ^'^ AN-DU is used as a variant of ^. 
 
 Formula abbreviated in various ways, the shortest form being mu e id KA-NUN-DI 
 in-si-ga. 
 
 iM rpjjg '(vriting of the last three signs looks more like GIS-QAB{oi Gtr)-KA than 
 anything else. The last is shown by several Yale tablets to be certainly Tea, not sag, 
 as it is read by Th-D BA xv p. 9 etc. uru-gu-sag ' ' the important city ' ' is tempting, 
 but does not seem to agree with the signs in the texts. My translation "a region of 
 the border" is merely conjectural. GIS-Gtr = makiitu " pillar (?), wall(?)" {Mei 
 2031), is also possible. 
 
GEICB • CHRONOLOGY OF LAESA DYNASTY 35 
 
 '^SinP-^^ hdd-ii mu-un-du-a}"'' the border ( ?) whose wall had 
 
 uku dagal-la-ii ki-bi-su bi-m- never been built ; reestablished 
 
 ge-a ki-tus ne-ha im-mi-m- its numerous people in their 
 
 ifw^"' place; made them dwell in a 
 
 dwelling of peace. 
 BUL 224; YBC 3286, 3356, 4998, 5098, 5160, 6243, 6389; AO 7025 III: 63-rV: 2; 
 Wa/rJca 87, 95; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 55, 74; Figulla VS liU 93, 96, 97; Th-D BA xv 
 p. 36 AO 6366, 6765. 
 
 30a. mu iis-sa dug-ta Ana ^En-lil Year after, by the command of 
 
 ^En-ki-ga-ia Zar-bi-lum''^ Ann, Bllil, and Bnki, the faith- 
 
 gan ( ? ) -gu {?)-ka ud-norine f ul shepherd Eim-Sin built the 
 
 bad nii mu-un-du-a sib gi-na wall of Zarbilum, a region of 
 
 Ri-im-^Sm bdd-bi mu-un-du-a the border ( ?), whose waU had 
 
 never been built. 
 BUL 225; YBC 6829, 7269; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 60."* 
 
 30b. mu a kal-ga^"^ Ana '^En-lil Year when by the mighty power of 
 ^En-ki-ga-ta Du-un-nv^um''^^^^ Anu, EUil, and EnM, the f aith- 
 
 uru''' sag-mafj, l-si-in''*-na-kd^''' ful shepherd Rim-Sin in one 
 
 sib gi-na^^^ Bi-im-'^Sm^^^ ud day took Dunum, the prin- 
 
 as-am^"" in-dib-ba erim nam- cipal city of Isin, his hand 
 
 gub-bi^°^ .su-ni sa"'^-bi-i[n- seized the soldiers its protec- 
 
 dug-ga] nam-lu gdl-bi ki-tus- tion, the people of that city he 
 
 bi nu mu-un-kur-ra^"^ did not remove from the place 
 
 of their dwelling. 
 BUL 218, 219; YBC 3301, 4484, 5248, 5391, 6144; AO 7025 IV: 3-7; Chiera UMBS 
 
 viii(l) 69; Scheil BA xii p. 200 No. 2; Th-D BA xv p. 37 AO 6393. 
 
 '"Var: dBi-im-dSin (?). 
 
 "^Var: mu-un-dH, mu-dH-a. 
 
 "' Formula variously abbreviated, the shortest -form being m« bad Zar-hi-lumii or 
 mu uruki Zar-bi-lumki. 
 
 "* Chiera 69 abbreviated mu u^-sa uru Zar-bi-lum mu-du-a. 
 
 ^"BUL 218 gives d Jcal-ga instead of dug-ga supplied by Th-D BA xv p. 9 on the 
 basis of AO 6393 which has dug. 
 
 "° Var : Du-un-nu-um. 
 
 "' Var : l-si-in-na-Tca. 
 
 "=Var: Sid. 
 
 "•Var: dBi-kn-dSin. 
 
 ™Var: aS-a. 
 
 "' Var : ne-ra. Perhaps it is the equivalent of ne-ru ^ erim, Dl S Gl p. 33. 
 
 '"BUL 218: 45 has sd instead of M of AO 7025 IV: 6. It seems reasonable, accord- 
 ingly, to complete the phrase sd-bi-in-dug-ga on the analogy of the formula for Eim-Sin 
 22, iastead of bi-i[n-ga/r-ra]. 
 
 "' The formula is variously abbreviated, the simplest forms so far found being mu 
 bdd Vu-un-nu-umki in-dib-ba, or m« Vu-nu-umki gal-a mu-dib-ia. 
 
36 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • EESEAECHES IV-1 
 
 31a. mu us-sa uru^^ Du-un-nu-vm Year after he took Dunum, . . . 
 
 . . . t-si-m-na''^ ha-an-dib of Isin. 
 
 Th-D SA XV p. 37 AO 6387. 
 
 31b. mu BiHukul-mah Ana ^En-lil Year when by the exalted weapon 
 ^En-M-ga-ta 1-si-in'''^''^ uru^"^ of Ann, EUil, and Bnki, the 
 
 nam-lugal-la u d-dam ds-dP"" righteous shepherd Rim-Sin 
 
 Or-na-me-a-iv"''' sib zid'"^ ^Bi- took Isin, the royal city, with 
 
 im-'^Sin^"^^ in-dib-ba^"^^ ugu all its inhabitants, as many as 
 
 uku dagal-bi su nam-ti-la in- there were ; over its numerous 
 
 gar-ra mu nam-lugal-bi du-ri- people he established the power 
 
 su^"^" bi-in-e'-"^^ of life ; he made go forth for- 
 
 ever the name of his kingship. 
 EUL 139; AO 7025 IV: 8-13; IV S 36, 4 and 5; King LIS p. 228 note Bu 91-5-9, 
 
 2466; Chiera UMBS Tiii(l) 30, 41, 61, 62, 67, 68, 77; FigvUla VS xiii 62, 63, 64, 65; 
 
 Ni 215,^"" 290,™, 431,"° 1690,='» 1925""; AO 6767 unpub."™ 
 
 32. mu ki-2 1-si-in^^ m-dib-ba'^^ Second year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 SUL 83; TBC 4229, 4270, 4384, 4307, 4481, 4831, 4843; Langdou Baiyl vii p. 45 a; 
 AO 7025 IV: 14-19; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 45, 70, 71, 77; Eigulla VS xiii 66, 67, 68, 
 70(?) ; Ni 1494,""^ 1687, 1689,''" 1692,=^* 1694-1700,=="' 1704,=i* 1706,^ 1707,''" 1709-1711,^* 
 1714-1716"^', 1719,^2 1720,^* 1725,™ 1728,"'= 1733""; Th-D BA xv p. 38 AO 6761. 
 
 =°'Var: BX7L 139 has the form I-si-mK See the note to BUL 3, under the formula 
 for Sin-iditinam a. Other var: t-sirin-naki, 1-si-in-na, t-si-in. 
 
 ^' Var : uruhi. 
 
 ^^ Var : ds-ds-M. 
 
 "'Var: a-na-me-e, a-na-me-M, a-na-a-M. 
 
 "" Var : gi-na. 
 
 ="aVar: Bi-im-dSin. 
 
 "°'bVar: ba-an-dib, ia-dib-ha, in-dib-ha-a, mu-un-dib-ba, also dlb{KU) instead of 
 dib(LV). 
 
 ="c Var : du-ri-es. 
 
 ''"dVar: bi-m-6-a, bi-nd-a. 
 
 "™ Th-D BA XV p. 37. 
 
 "" Lindl BA iv pp. 338 ff. 
 
 ^" The conventionalized formula used for this and the succeeding years of the Isin era 
 is that used in AO 7025 for the years of the era beginning with the fourth, while in 
 AO 7025 the formulae for the second and the third years of the era are written as 
 fuUy as the first year, the second being called mu us-sa etc, and the third mu us-sa-bi 
 etc. Fidl forms were occasionally used in business documents also for the later years 
 of the era, the only one that is as fuU as the form on the prism for the first three 
 years, however, that has yet been found on a published tablet being in BVL 106, for 
 the eighth year of the era, though on the many documents of the era which have been 
 published the formula is abbreviated or altered in almost every conceivable way. 
 
 Besides the phrases for the second and the third years of the era already stated. 
 
GEICE ■ CHRONOLOGY OF LAE8A DYNASTY 37 
 
 33. mu ki-3 l-si-in''* in-dib-ba Third year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 BUL 95(1); AO 7025 IV: 20-25; Chiera UMBS 7iii(l) 57, 66; Figulla VS xiii 71, 
 72; Ni 933,=^* 1701.'=i* 
 
 34. mu ki-4 t-si-m''' in-dib-ba Fourth year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 BVL 249; AO 7025 IV: 26; Chiera VMBS viii(l) 50; Ni 752,=" 1693,^' 1718.^' 
 
 35. mu ki-5 1-si-in''' in-dib-ba Fifth year (of the era in which) he 
 
 took Isin. 
 BVL 205; AO 7025 IV: 27; WarTca 105; Chiera UMBS Yiii(l) 78; Ni 1702.=^' 
 
 36. mu ki-6 1-si-in''* in-dib-ba Sixth year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 Warlca 9 = Mei ABP 41, 10; Chiera VMBS 7iii(l) 29; FiguUa F^S xiii 73; SeheU 
 BA xii p. 116; AO 7025 IV: 28. 
 
 37. mu ki-7 1-si-in''' in-dib-ba Seventh year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 WarJca 107"%- Figulla VS xiii 74, 75, 76, 77; AO 7025 IV: 29; Scheil BA xii p. 201; 
 Grant SCL Smith 273. 
 
 38. mu ki-8 1-si-in'''' in-dib-ba Eighth year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 BVL 106; IV B 36, 9; AO 7025 IV: 30; WarTca 24; Chiera VMBS Tiii(l) 56; 
 Figulla VS xiii 78. 
 
 39. mu ki-9 1-si-vn''' in-dib-ba Ninth year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 31; Th-D LC 232; Brit. Mus. 33280"'; Chiera VMBS Tui(l) 28; 
 FiguUa rs xiii 79. 
 
 40. mu ki-10 l-si-in''' in-dib-ba Tenth year (of the era in which) 
 
 he took Isin. 
 
 various other ways of expressing the position of the year in the era were employed by 
 the scribes; e. g., 
 
 mu us-sa-bi Jci-3 mu us-sa x-Tcam-ma mu ki-x iis-sa 
 
 mu us-sa Tci-x. mu u,s-sa Tcirx-Tca/m mu Tci-x-Tcam-ma 
 
 mu us-sa x-Tca/m mu uS-sa M-x-Jcam-ma mu x-Tca/m 
 
 and for the years up to the sixth mu us-sa-x-'bi in Yale texts (Cf. BVL 205, 249). It 
 seemed best to group all these variants and to make no reference to them in connection 
 with the individual years to which they happen to belong. 
 "" Th-D BA XV p. 38, note 61 and footnote 1. 
 "'« Th-D BA XV p. 38, note 61 and footnote 2. 
 '" Lindl BA iv pp. 338 ff. 
 
 "° See Chiera VMBS viii(l) p. 76, notes 3 and 4. 
 ="See Chiera VMBS viii(l) p. 77, 9. 
 
38 YALE OEIENTAL SERIES ■ RESEAECHES IV-1 
 
 AO 7025 IV: 32; Langdon PSBA xxriv pp. 109 ff. No. viii; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 
 43; MguUa F5 siii 70a(?), 80. 
 
 41. mu ki-11 t-si-in''* in-dib-ha Eleventh year (of the era in which) 
 AO 7025 IV: 33; Poebel BE Yi(2) 6. he took Isin. 
 
 42. mv, ki-12 1-si-m''' irk-dib-ha Twelfth year (of the era in which) 
 AO 7025 IV: 34; Pigulla VS xiii 81. he tOOk Isin. 
 
 43. mu ki-13 l-si-in'^' in-dib-ia Thirteenth year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 IV: 35; WarTca 13, 14. which) he took Isin. 
 
 44. mu ki-14 l-si-in^' in-dib-ha Fourteenth year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 rV: 36; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 38. which) he took Isin. 
 
 45. mu ki-15 t-si-M'* in-dih-ba Fifteenth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 rV: 37; PiguUa VS xiii 82, 83; "Waterman AJSL xxix p. 197 (Bu. 91-5-9, 
 752).'" 
 
 ^<o. mu ki-16 t-si-in''' in-dib-ha Sixteenth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 rV: 38; Langdon PSBA xxxiv pp. 109 fE. Nos. vi, ix, x; Figulla VS xiii 
 84, 85. 
 
 47. mu ki-17 1-si-in''^ in-dib-ha Seventeenth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 39; Waterman AJSL xxix p. 153 (Bu. 91-5-9, 868).=" 
 
 48. mu ki-18 t-si-in''^ in-dib-ha Eighteenth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 40; IV £ 36, 11; WarTca 1,S; Poebel BE vi(2) 7. 
 
 49. mu ki-19 1-si-in''* in-dib-ha Nineteenth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 rV: 41; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 44; TiguUa VS xiii 86. 
 
 50. mu ki-20 1-si-in^^ in-dib-ha Twentieth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 42; Langdon FSB A xxxiv pp. 109 ff. No. vii; Figulla VS xiii 87, 88, 89. 
 
 51. mu ki-21 i-si-in''* in-dib-ha Twenty-first year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 rV: 43; Scheil BT xix 44. which) he tOOk Isin. 
 
 52. mu ki-22 t-si-in^^ in-dib-ha Twenty-second year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 44; Poebel BE ^A{2) 8; Figulla VS xiii 90; Ni 1708.^'* 
 
 "" It is possible that these texts, the formulae of which read mu 15-Tcam and mu 
 17-'kam('?}, are not of the Isin era, because all the other texts published by Waterman 
 in his two articles in AJSL are either of the First Dynasty of Babylon or of Immerum, 
 the latter being probably a king of Sippar. Yet in the period of the First Dynasty no 
 other era of fifteen or more years is known other than that after the capture of Isin. 
 
GRICE • CHRONOLOGY OF liARSA DYNASTY 
 
 39 
 
 53. mu ki-23 t-si-in''' in-dib-ha Twenty-third year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 45; Chiera VMBS viii(l) 72; Ni 1717.=^* 
 
 54. mu ki-24 1-si-m^^ in-dib-ba Twenty-fourth year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 IV: 46; Chiera UMB8 viii(l) 59. ^hjch) he took Isin. 
 
 55. mu k'i-25 l-si-m''Hn-dib-la Twenty-fifth year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 IV: 47; Poebel BE Ti(2) 9. y,Uch) he took Isin. 
 
 56. mu ki-26 t-si-in''^ in-dib-ba Twenty-sixth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 48; Langdon PSBA xxxiv pp. 109 ff. No. v; Ni 642 «« 1688.^* 
 
 57. mu ki-27 1-si-in''^ in-dib-ba Twenty-seventh year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 IV: 49; Ni 1591.- -j^hich) he took Isin. 
 
 58. mu ki-28 1-si-in''* in-dib-ba Twenty-eighth year (of the era in 
 AO 7025 IV: 50; Warlca 19. ^hich) he took Isin. 
 
 59. mu ki-29 1-si-in''* in-dib-ba Twenty-ninth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 51; WarTca 19, 82; Chiera UMBS viii(l) 31. 
 
 60. mu ki-30 1-si-im''' in-dib-ba Thirtieth year (of the era in 
 
 which) he took Isin. 
 AO 7025 IV: 52; FiguUa VS xiii 91, 92; ScheU BT xxi 125. 
 
 61. mu ki-31 t-siAn''' in-dib-ba Thirty-first year (of the era in 
 BVL 206; YBC 5552, 7082; AO 7025 IV: 53. which) he took Isin. 
 
 Incomplete dates of the Isin era: 
 
 CT vi pi. 24; Chiera VMBS viii(l) 40, 47; Pigulla ¥8 xiii 101; WarTca 104(?). 
 
 Eim-Sin II 
 
 a. mu '^Bi-im-^Sin lugal (First) year of Rim-Sin, the king. 
 
 AO 4323."'" 
 
 '''Nouvelles Fomlles de Tello p. 195, and Th-D LC 233. See Th-D BA xv pp. 
 42-44, 51. The determinative for god before the name Eim-Siu is not convincing 
 evidence for assigning texts to a Eim-Sin II, imless accompanied by other evidence, 
 because of the variation in writing the name of the first Eim-Sin. See BUL 107, 
 dated in the eighteenth year of Rim-Sin I, where the king's name is written 
 in the oath formula Bi-im-Sin(ES), and note the fact that in the documents 
 from Nippur (See especially Poebel BE vi 2), the regular form is dBi-im-dSin, from 
 the very beginning of the reign. Though no tablets from Senkereh have yet been 
 published which use the determinative for god before the name of Eim-Sin earlier than 
 the twenty-third year of his reign, a text from Mugheir {BUL 103) in the Yale Collee- 
 tion is dated mu dBi-im-dSin lugcd. Inasmuch as the latest date among the one hundred 
 and thirty-six Yale tablets from Mugheir is the eighth year of the Isin era, whUe the 
 Mugheir tablets include several of Sin-iqisham and §ili-7M, together with a large nmnber 
 
40 
 
 YALE ORIENTAL SERIES • EESEARCHES IV-1 
 
 b. mu '^Ri-im-'^Sin lugal Uruma^' 
 
 ki-edin-su ii-in-gar 
 Pinches PSBA xxxix p. 56 and PI. iv 17. 
 
 c. mu '^Bi-im-'^Sin lugal ^Nin- 
 
 mah-e e EeP'^^^ temen-an- 
 ki^^^-ii-da-ta nam-lugal uku- 
 kis-gdl-la-su gal-hi-ia ba-an- 
 i[l]-la lu-kur lu-}),ul-li kur- 
 kur-su gah-hi nu ge-a^^^ 
 
 BUL 226, 227; YBC 5767, 5846, 7043, 7159; 
 PSBA Tnf Y J x p. 68 and PI. viii 21. 
 
 Year Rim-Sin, the king, established 
 Ur (as the capital ?) for the 
 land of the plain. 
 
 Year Rim-Sin, the king, whom, in 
 the temple of Kesh, the temen 
 of heaven and of earth, the 
 goddess Nin-mah raised to the 
 sovereignty of all the people, 
 did not drive back the wicked 
 enemies into their countries. 
 
 WarTca 11, 12, 22; Uei ABP 1; Pinches 
 
 Unidentified Formulae, probably of the Larsa Dynasty 
 
 a. See Warad-Sin a. 
 
 b. See Sin-idinnam a. 
 
 c. mu unu S-habhar-ra ia-dti^^^ 
 EVL 38 : 3, 75. 
 
 d(=c + l).^^^ mu ugnim DIN- 
 
 TIB-KI siHukul ha^afi-sig 
 BUL 38 : 5 and date. 
 
 Year he built the dwelling E-bab- 
 bar. 
 
 Year he smote with his weapon the 
 army of Babylon. 
 
 of Warad-Sin, BUL 103 is probably from the reign of Rim-Sin I, and the determinative 
 for god was probably in use at TJr as weU as Nippur from the beginning of the reign 
 of Rim-Sin I. Thureau-Dangin 's arguments for the existence of a second Rim-Sin, 
 however, seem convincing, and the three formulae lettered a, b, and c are therefore given 
 here as belonging to Rim-Sin II. The criteria for determining to which Rim-Sin a 
 given tablet of the first year of the reign belongs must in any case be of the same 
 nature as those which Thureau-Dangin himself uses in determining the position of AO 
 4323 (See BA xv p. 43), not merely the way of writing the name of the king. (Note 
 also mBim(AM)-dSin(ES) in King Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings vol. 
 II p. 123 U. 9, 15.) 
 
 '" In BUL 226 Keski has DU inserted in the usual sign, the usual form being found 
 in WarTca 12. 
 
 ™ BUL 226 has here a sign which looks more like ud than lei, though probably Tci 
 is intended. 
 
 =2> Formula abbreviated mu dBi-im-dSin lugal M-Tcur lH Tj.ul-gdl, or simply mu H-Tcv/r 
 lA Jiul-gdl. 
 
 ^' This may possibly be a date of Sin-idinnam. Of. references to Sin-idinnam 's 
 building fi-babbar in his cones. (Th-D VAB I pp. 208-211; texts published Dl BA I 
 301 ff; Lenormant Choix de Textes No. 6, and IV B 36 No. 2; CT xxi 30, 30215.) 
 
 '^ BUL 38 contains two date formulae, those given here as c and d. Accordingly 
 d is for the year after c. 
 
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 e. mu ugnim uru Al-gu-um siHu- Year [he smote] with his weapon 
 
 kul [ha-an-sig] the army of the city Algum. 
 
 EVL 17. 
 
 f. mu hdd-gal Ararma''^{-ma)^^* Year he built the great wall of 
 
 la-du^^^ u 1 alam hu-'bab- Larsa and brought into the 
 
 6ar^^' w 1 alam guskin"^'' e temple of Shamash one silver 
 
 '^Bahbar-su^^^ i-ni-tu-ri^"" statue and one golden statue. 
 
 EUL 13, 21, 23, 35, 37, 40, 41, 64, 69, 74, 80a, 86, 92, 100, 109a, 148; YBC 4235b, 
 
 4792, 4853 ; Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 235 EFH 25a. 
 
 g(=fH-l). mu us-sa alam gus- Year after he brought a golden 
 
 km e ^Babbar-su i-ni-tu-ri statue into the temple of 
 
 BUL 45. Shamash. 
 
 h. mu Bi^gu-za e ^Nannar Year (he brought) a throne (into) 
 
 the temple of Nannar. 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 223 EFH 5,"'» p. 241 EFH 33. 
 
 i. mu kisal-mah '^Babbar sag Year he built the lofty temple plat- 
 
 UNV'^-ma ba-du^^'^ form of Shamash in Erech ( ?) . 
 
 SUL 22, 39. 
 
 j. mu siSgu-za zag-bi-us urudu Year he brought into the temple of 
 
 ^^* Var : Ararmaki. 
 
 ^''"Var: ha-du omitted. 
 
 ^™Var: s'O.-du-a inserted. 
 
 ''"Var: il 1 alam, guSkin omitted. 
 
 "'"Var: e dBalhar-ra, e dBabbar. 
 
 "™Var: i-ni-in-tu-ri, i-ni-m-tu, i-ni-in-tu-ra, tu-ri. 
 
 The texts here listed are dated by formulae which are of three groups: 
 
 a. The complete formula as given above. 
 
 b. mat idd-gal Ararmaki ia-du. 
 
 c. mii alam guskin e dBabbar-sH i-m-vn-tu-ri. 
 
 For convenience they have been grouped together above, though it is possible that they 
 represent two or even three different years. The letters a or b at the right of the 
 numbers in the list indicate to which group each text belongs. The texts without a 
 letter belong to group c. Some of these texts, possibly all of them, may belong to the 
 reign of Sin-iqisham. Cf. Sin-iqisham b, c. 
 
 ^° The formula of EFH 5 is read by Meek mu gu-sa sangii-us. This reading may 
 be correct. 
 
 ^' The name of the city in both of these texts is written VNVki-ma. The sign UNTI 
 of course is the sign for Ereeh, yet the overhanging ma suggests that probably W was 
 omitted by the scribe before UNU, and that the city referred to was XJV-TJNTJki, Larsa, 
 making these tablets of the year Warad-Sin c. 
 
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 ur-mah min{f)-a-'bi e ^Innina 
 in-ni-tu-ri 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 281.=^ 
 
 k(^ j + 1.) mu us-sa zag-hi-us 
 ur-mah min{?)-a-'bi e ^Inni- 
 na-su i-ni-in-tu-ra 
 
 See Johns PSBA xxxii p. 281.=^ 
 
 1. mu id '^Sin-i-mi . . . mu-ha-al 
 WarTca 92. 
 
 m. mu B'^gu-za '^En-lil mu-un-dim- 
 
 ma 
 Langdon Babyl vii p. 48 b. 
 
 n. mu us-sa urudu alam d-ii e 
 
 '^Bahhar-su ha-dim 
 Th-D LC 58.=^ 
 
 o. mu Du-nu-um . . . mu-du 
 Th-D LC 55.==' 
 
 p. mu En-te-na id he-gal mu-ha- 
 
 Th-D SA XV p. 39 e AO 6383. 
 
 q. mu ''Nu-mus-da ^^"'^Nam-ra-at 
 ^^^''Lugal-A-wa-ak^^'' ia-an- 
 
 Ishtar a throne with two(?) 
 bronze lions at its sides. 
 
 Year after he brought into the tem- 
 ple of Ishtar (a throne with) 
 two( ?) lions at its sides. 
 
 Year he dug the canal Sin-imi- . . . 
 
 Year he made the throne of Ellil. 
 
 Year after he made four bronze 
 statues for the temple of 
 Shamash. 
 
 Year he built Dunum . . . 
 
 Year he dug Entena, the canal of 
 abundance. 
 
 Year he made (statues of) Nu- 
 mushda, Namrat, (and) Lugal- 
 
 ^^ Johns gives the two formulae listed here as j and k with other f ormvdae which 
 he says are of Immerum or Nur-721f. Judging by the oath formulae which mention 
 him, Immerimi was probably a king of Sippar. The oath of CT iv 50a, mu dSamas H 
 Im-me-ru-um mu dMarduJc H 8v,-mu-la-ilu indicates that the patron god of Immerum 's 
 city was Shamash, as Marduk was the patron of Babylon, Sumu-la-Uu 's capital; i. e., 
 that Immerum was king of either Larsa or Sippar. But the oaths which mention both 
 Immerum and Sippar (Of., e. g., the oath of VS viii 4, 5, by Shamash, Aia, Sippar, 
 and Immerum, the gods of Sippar and the city itself) indicate that his seat was at 
 Sippar rather than Larsa. The dates j and k are included in the list because they 
 may belong to the Larsa Dynasty. Cf. the formula for Sumu-ilu 3, of which this may 
 possibly be a variant. 
 
 ™ See Th-D BA xv pp. 38-39 a. 
 
 '^ See Th-D BA xv p. 39 b. 
 
 ^'It is possible, in view of the great variation in the writing of the sign edin-na in 
 the large number of Yale tablets dated in the seventeenth year of Rim-Sin, that this 
 formula is for that year, id having been omitted by a mistake of the scribe. 
 
 ^Var: a single vertical wedge is inserted in one text before dNam-ra-at and one 
 before dLugal-A-wa-ak. Perhaps this means "one" statue, though it may be a deter- 
 minative before the name. 
 
 '^ Yar : dLugal-A -wa-dkki. 
 
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 43 
 
 dim-me-es Ka-sal-lu'''-s'i),^^^ Awak, (and) brought them 
 
 i-ni-in-tu-ri^^^ into Kazallu. 
 Th-D MA XV pp. 39-40 f AO 6382, 6386. 
 
 r. mu '''Idigna ha-ba-al n^su-nir Year he dug the Tigris, and brought 
 
 gal guskin e ^Babhar-su i-ni- into the temple of Shamasb. a 
 
 in-tu-ri^*" large golden emblem. 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 225 BFH 8 (See p. 217). 
 
 s. mu «'^su-nir kal-ga e ^Nannar-su Year he brought a precious emblem 
 
 i-ni-m-tu-rv'^^ into the temple of Nannar. 
 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 240 EFH 32, p. 241 EFH 34. 
 
 t. mu Lugal-^Zuen-na ba-an-dil^^^ Year he took Sharru-Sin. 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 243 EFH 39. 
 
 u. mu ugnim . . .^^^ ^utukul Year he smote with his weapon the 
 
 ha-an-sig army . . . 
 Meek AJSL xxxiii p. 233 KFH 22, p. 242 EFH 38. 
 
 °^' Var : Ka-zalki-lu-sil. 
 
 ^' Var : i-m4n-tu-tu. 
 
 '" This may be a formula of Sin-idinnam. Of. his reference to digging the Tigris 
 in a cone published Dl BA I 301 ff, translated Th-D VAB I pp. 208, 209. 
 
 ^" The formula of EFH 32 reads mu su-nir Tcal-ga e dNannar; that of EFH 34 is 
 read by Meek mu giSsH-nir-ra Tcalag e dGasan-Tci-gal i-ni-in-tu-ri. 
 
 '" Of. the formulae for Sumu-ilu 5 and Eim-Sin 19. This formula) read by Meek 
 mu lugal Nipruki ba-an-dib, is not exactly like either of the other formulae. 
 
 ^"Meek leaves this formula undeciphered. His copies do not look like any other 
 known formula of the dynasty which has to do with an army. (Of. Gungunu 19; Abi- 
 sar§ 9; Sumu-ilu 4, 11-13, 22; Sin-idinnam a; Warad-Sin a; Eim-Sin 15, 16, 22; 
 U d, e.) The signs in his copy of this formula look more like 6IS-(?)-KA-A-KI than 
 anything else.