Iptar-Sin or IB.TAR.Sîn
[mIB.TAR-d30.] (reading uncertain), was the 51st
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...
n king according to the ''Assyrian King List''.
[''Ḫorsābād King List'' ii 18.] He reigned for 12 years some time during the 17th century BC.
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
Libaya reigned as king of Assyria 1690–1674 BC. He succeeded Bel-bani in the Adaside dynasty, which came to the fore after the ejection of the Babylonians and Amorites
The Amorites (; sux, 𒈥𒌅, MAR.TU; Akkadian: 𒀀𒈬𒊒𒌝 or ...
,
Sharma-Adad I
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
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.
[KAV 14.] He is called LIK.KUD''-Šamaš'' on the ''Synchronistic King List''
[''Synchronistic King List'' A.117, Assur 14616c, i 5.] 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
The First Sealand dynasty, (URU.KÙKIWhere ŠEŠ-ḪA of King List A and ŠEŠ-KÙ-KI of King List B are read as URU.KÙ.KI) or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 B ...
.
He was succeeded by Bazaya, son of Belu-bani.
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17th-century BC Assyrian kings
17th-century BC deaths
Year of birth unknown