Lipit-Enlil
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| reign = 5 regnal years
c. 1873-1869 BC (MC)
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| predecessor = Būr-Sîn
| successor = Erra-Imittī
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| royal house = 1st Dynasty of Isin
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Lipit-Enlil, written dli-pí-it den.líl, where the Sumerian King ListThe Sumerian King List Ash. 1923.444, the Wend-Blundell prism. and the Ur-Isin king list MS 1686, the Ur-Isin king list. match on his name and reign, was the 8th king of the 1st dynasty of Isin and ruled for five years, c. 1873–1869 BC (MC). He was a son of Būr-Sîn.{{ cite book | title = A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts | url = https://archive.org/details/remarkablecollec00frib | url-access = limited | author = Jöran Friberg | publisher = Springer | year = 2007 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/remarkablecollec00frib/page/n251 231]–234 }}
Biography
There are no inscriptions known for this king.{{ cite book | title = Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 B.C.): Early Periods, Volume 4 | author = Douglas Frayne | publisher = University of Toronto Press | year = 1990 | page = 75 }} His brief reign ended a period of relative stability and he was succeeded by Erra-Imittī whose filiation is unknown, as the Sumerian King List omits this information from this point on. Both he and his successor were conspicuous in the absence of royal hymns or dedicatory prayers and Hallo speculates this may have been due to the distractions afforded by the commencement of conflict with Larsa.{{ cite book | title = The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles Lettres | url = https://archive.org/details/worldsoldestlite00hall | url-access = limited | author = William W. Hallo | publisher = Brill | year = 2009 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/worldsoldestlite00hall/page/n217 185]–186 }}
The archives of the temple of Ninurta, the é-šu-me-ša4, in Nippur, extended over more than seventy-five years, from year 1 of Lipit-Enlil of Isin (1875) to year 28 of Rim-Sin I (1794) and were inadvertently preserved when they were used as infill for the temple of Inanna in the Parthian period. The 420 fragments show a thriving temple economy absorbing much of the available wealth.{{ cite book | title = State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East, Volume I | chapter = God, king and man at Yale | author = William W Hallo | publisher = Peeters Publishers | year = 1979 | page = 104 }} The year-names following his accession year all somewhat monotonously commemorate generous gifts to the temple of Enlil.
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See also
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101231082929/http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/lipit-enlil Lipit-Enlil year-names at CDLI.]
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