Iptar-Sin
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IB.TAR.SînmIB.TAR-d30. was the 51st Assyria
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.
He was succeeded by Bazaj(j)a, son of Bēlu-bāni.
Assyria
Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
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 King List provides a sequence of five kings with short reigns purported to be father-son successions, leading Landsberger to suggest that Labaj(j)a, Šarma-Adad I and IB.TAR.Sîn may have been brothers of Bēlu-bāni rather than his descendants. It reports him as son of Šarma-Adad I. He is omitted from the list on another fragment.KAV 14.. He is called LIK.KUD-Šamaš on the Synchronistic King ListSynchronistic King List A.117, Assur 14616c, i 5. which gives his Babylonian counterpart as mGÍS-EN, an unidentified person inserted between the reigns of Gulkišar and his son Pešgaldaramaš of the Sealand Dynasty.He was succeeded by Bazaj(j)a, son of Bēlu-bāni.