Iptar-Sin

Iptar-Sin

Iptar-Sin

Issi'ak Assur

Iptar-Sin or IB.TAR.Sîn[nb 1] (reading uncertain), was the 51st Assyrian king according to the Assyrian King List.[i 1] He reigned for 12 years some time during the 17th century BC.

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Biography

The Assyrian King List provides a sequence of five kings with short reigns purported to be father-son successions, leading Landsberger to suggest that Libaya, Sharma-Adad I and Iptar-Sin may have been brothers of Belu-bani rather than his descendants. The list reports Iptar-Sin as the son of Sharma-Adad I. He is omitted from the list on another fragment.[i 2][2] He is called LIK.KUD-Šamaš on the Synchronistic King List[i 3] which gives his Babylonian counterpart as mDIŠ+U-EN (reading unknown), an unidentified person inserted between the reigns of Gulkišar and his son Pešgaldarameš of the Sealand Dynasty.

He was succeeded by Bazaya, son of Belu-bani.

Inscriptions

  1. [i 1]
    Ḫorsābād King List ii 18.
  2. [i 2]
    KAV 14.
  3. [i 3]
    Synchronistic King List A.117, Assur 14616c, i 5.

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    mIB.TAR-d30.

References

  1. [1]
    Bertman, Stephen (2003). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0195183641.
  2. [2]
    J. A. Brinkman (1999). Dietz Otto Edzard (ed.). Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia – Kizzuwatna. Vol. 5. Walter De Gruyter. pp. 23–24.
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17th century BC		 Succeeded by
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