Sabium

{{Short description|Amorite king}}

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Sabium (sà-bu-um) (also Sabum) was an Amorite King in the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Amorite Dynasty. He reigned c. 1844 BC – 1831 BC (MC),{{Cite book |last=Beaulieu |first=Paul |title=A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 |date=2018 |publisher=Pondicherry: Wiley |isbn=978-1405188999 |pages=69}} and ruled what was at the time a small recently created Amorite kingdom which included the town of Babylon. Sabium makes no claim of kingship of Babylon itself, suggesting that it had not yet grown into the major metropolis it would become under his descendant Hammurabi.[http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/yearnames/HTML/T12K3.htm Year names of Sabium of Babylon - CDLI] His is known to have maintained control over the city of Sippar, conquered by Sumu-la-El.[https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/925287/file/6827724.pdf] Tanret, Michel, and Guido Suurmeijer, "Officials of the Šamaš Temple of Sippar as Contract Witnesses in the Old Babylonian Period", pp. 78-112, 2011

Ibal-pi-El I of Eshnunna is known to have concluded a treaty with Sin-Iddinam of Larsa and Sîn-kāšid of Uruk against Sabium and his ally Nerebtum.Guichard, Michaël, "Un traité d’alliance entre Larsa, Uruk et Ešnunna contre Sabium de Babylone", Semitica 56, pp. 9-34, 2014