Abstract
Only one reference to Elam is currently known from the corpus of year names of the First Dynasty of Babylon: in naming his 30th regnal year, Hammurabi of Babylon commemorated how in the previous year he had thwarted an invasion by a host of nations under Elamite high command. This chapter draws attention to a second attestation of Elam in this corpus, in a year name of Hammurabi's grandson Abiesuh which appears in abbreviated form in the dates of four hitherto unpublished tablets from Sippar in the collection of the British Museum. The authors have proposed that Kutir-Nahhunte was advanced in years by Abiesuh year e, and may assume that Temti-agun had been his junior partner for quite some time before. They prefer to take the Ammiṣaduqa synchronism as an terminus ante quem for Kuk-Nasur, instead of an terminus ad quem as has been done so far. Keywords:Abiesuh; Babylon; British museum; Elam; Hammurabi; Sippar
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