Sîn-māgir ( akk, ,
Dsuen-ma-gir), inscribed
dEN.ZU''-ma-gir'', “
Sîn upholds,”
c. 1763 – 1753 BC (
short chronology) or c. 1827 – 1817 BC (
middle chronology
The chronology of the ancient Near East is a framework of dates for various events, rulers and dynasties. Historical inscriptions and texts customarily record events in terms of a succession of officials or rulers: "in the year X of king Y". Com ...
) was the 14th king of
Isin and he reigned for 11 years.
[''Sumerian King Lists'' Ash. 1923.444 and CBS 19797 and ''Ur-Isin king list'' MS 1686.]
Biography
His reign falls over the last six years of
Warad-Sin
Warad-Sin (, ARAD- Dsuen) ruled the ancient Near East city-state of Larsa from 1770 BC to 1758 BC ( short chronology). There are indications that his father Kudur-Mabuk was co-regent or at very least the power behind the throne
The phrase "power ...
and the first five of
Rim-Sin I, the sons of
Kudur-Mabuk
Kudur-Mabuk was a ruler in the ancient Near East city-state
of Larsa from 1770 BC to 1754 BC. His sons Warad-Sin and
Rim-Sin I were kings of Larsa. His daughter En-ane-du was high
priestess of the moon god in Ur.
Chronology of the Larsa Dynas ...
and successive kings of
Larsa
Larsa ( Sumerian logogram: UD.UNUGKI, read ''Larsamki''), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult ...
, and wholly within the reign of the
Babylonian monarch
Apil-Sin. There are currently six extant royal inscriptions, including brick palace inscriptions,
[Brick, IM 78635.] seals for his devoted servants, such as Iddin-damu, his “chief builder,” and Imgur-Sîn, his administrator, and a cone
[Cone A 16750.] which records the construction of a storehouse for the goddess Aktuppītum of Kiritab in his honor commissioned by Nupṭuptum, the ''lukur'' priestess or concubine, “his beloved traveling escort, mother of his first-born.”
An inscription
[IB 1610, from Isin, a complete cone and VA Bab 628, 609, from Babylon, parts of a single cone.] marks the construction of a defensive wall, called ''Dūr-Sîn-māgir'', “Sîn-māgir makes the foundation of his land firm,” at Dunnum, a city northeast of
Nippur. Control of Nippur itself however may have shifted to Larsa, under the rule of Warad-Sîn and his father, Kudur-Mabuk, the power behind the throne, as his sixth year-name celebrates that he “had (14 copper statues brought into Nippur and) 3 thrones adorned with gold brought into the temples of
Nanna,
Ningal
Ningal ( Sumerian: "Great Queen"), also known as Nikkal in Akkadian, was a Mesopotamian goddess of Sumerian origin regarded as the wife of the moon god, Nanna/Sin. She was particularly closely associated with his main cult centers, Ur and Harran ...
and
Utu
Utu (dUD "Sun"), also known under the Akkadian name Shamash, ''šmš'', syc, ܫܡܫܐ ''šemša'', he, שֶׁמֶשׁ ''šemeš'', ar, شمس ''šams'', Ashurian Aramaic: 𐣴𐣬𐣴 ''š'meš(ā)'' was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god. ...
.” Larsa was to retain Nippur until year nine of Rīm-Sîn when it was lost to
Damiq-ilišu. One of the cones bearing this inscription was found in the ruins of the temple of
Ninurta, the ''é-ḫur-sag-tí-la'', in Babylon, and is thought likely to have been an ancient museum piece. The city of Dunnum, the celebration of whose original foundation may have been the purpose of the
Dynasty of Dunnum
The Dynasty of Dunnum, sometimes called the ''Theogony of Dunnum'' or ''Dunnu'' or the ''Harab Myth'', is an ancient Mesopotamian mythical tale of successive generations of gods who take power through parricide and live incestuously with their mo ...
myth,
was taken by Rim-Sin the year before he conquered Isin and so it is conjectured that the cone was taken from Larsa as booty by
Ḫammu-rapī.
Two legal tablets offered for private sale, recording sales of a storehouse and palm grove, give a year-name elsewhere unattested, “year Sîn-māgir the king dug the Ninkarrak canal.”
[Tablets with dealer references LO.1250 and LO.1253.] Another year-name marks
"(Sîn-māgir) built on the bank of the Iturungal canal (the old wadi) a great fortification (called) ''Sîn-māgir-madana-dagal-dagal'' (Sîn-māgir broadens his country)." A province in the south and a town in eastern Babylonia near Tuplias are both called ''Bīt-Sîn-māgir'' and some historians have speculated one or other were named in his honor.
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External links
Sîn-māgir Year names at CDLI
Inscriptions
References
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19th-century BC Sumerian kings
18th-century BC Sumerian kings
Dynasty of Isin