Ammi-Ditana

Ammi-Ditana was a king of Babylon who reigned from 1683–1640s BC. He was preceded by Abi-Eshuh. Year-names survive for the first 37 years of his reign, plus fragments for a few possible additional years. His reign was a largely peaceful one; he was primarily engaged in enriching and enlarging the temples, and a few other building projects, although in his 37th regnal year he recorded having destroyed the city wall of Der, built earlier by Damiq-ilishu of Isin.[http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/yearnames/HTML/T12K9.htm Year-names for Ammi-ditana]

File:King Ammi-Ditana tin tablet (Hecht Museum).jpg.]]

Literature

Ammi ditana is known for his literature.One is called Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar.{{cite web|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/recordings/ammi-ditanas-hymn-istar-read-doris-prechel|title=Ammi-ditāna's hymn to Ištar}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151595/|title=Die altbabylonische Zeit|pages=510–514|year=2004|last1=Edzard|first1=Dietz Otto|author-link=Dietz Otto Edzard}}

Another work is called the Di 1353, a letter to chief lamentation priest of Annunītum on the provision of fodder barley for livestock in Nakkamtum.{{cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/716094?journalCode=jcs|title=By Order of the King: Ammi-Ditana's Letter on the Provision of Fodder Barley for the Sheep and Oxen of the Nakkamtum|first=Jensen|last=Caroline|journal=Journal of Cuneiform Studies |year=2021 |volume=73 |pages=71–87 |doi=10.1086/716094 |s2cid=235798997 }}

References

{{Succession box

|title = Kings of Babylon

|years = 1683–1640s BC

|before = Abi-Eshuh

|after = Ammi-Saduqa

}}

Category:17th-century BC kings of Babylon

Category:First dynasty of Babylon