JSTOR Daily: Explaining Disaster: Tradition and Transformation of the 'Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sin' in Babylonian Literature
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Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin was king of Sumer and Akkad and last king of the Ur III dynasty, and reigned c. 2028–2004 BC. During his reign, the Sumerian empire was attacked repeatedly by Amorites. As faith in Ibbi-Sin's leadership failed, Elam declared its independence and began to raid as well.
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politics · King of Sumer and Akkad, c. 2028–2004 BC · monarch · also Ibbi-Sin
Born 2050 BC · Q352752
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Or 1940 BC, Elam, along with "tribesmen from the region of Shimashki in the Zagros Mountains" sacked Ur and took Ibbi-Sin captive; he was taken to the city of Elam where he was imprisoned and, at an unknown date, died
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