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Iptar-Sin

Iptar-Sin or IB.TAR.Sîn, was the 51st Assyrian king according to the Assyrian King List. He reigned for 12 years some time during the 17th century BC.

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Iptar-Sin
King of Assyria
Reignc. 1662 – c. 1650 BC1
PredecessorSharma-Adad I
SuccessorBazaya
Diedc. 1650 BC
IssueBazaya

Iptar-Sin or IB.TAR.Sînnb 1 (reading uncertain; died c. 1650 BC), 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.

Succession line and contemporaries

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 22 He is called LIK.KUD-Šamaš on the Synchronistic King Listi 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.

Inscriptions

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

Notes

  1. mIB.TAR-d30.
References

References

  1. Bertman, Stephen (2003). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0195183641.
  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.