A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . e know that, while A\arad-Sin was stillKing of Larsa, he dedicated a chamber in Ishtars temple at Khallabu ( Texts in the Brit. Mus., XXI., pi. 31, No. 91144; and Thureau-Daugin, Kcinigsinschriften, p. 214 f). We should then have to assumethat, before completinjj his conquest of Sumer, he had already pushed upand across the Euphrates and had captured large districts of Amurru. It ispossible that this was so, but it should be noted that both Khallabu and Bit-Karkara are mentioned in the Prologue to Hammura
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . e know that, while A\arad-Sin was stillKing of Larsa, he dedicated a chamber in Ishtars temple at Khallabu ( Texts in the Brit. Mus., XXI., pi. 31, No. 91144; and Thureau-Daugin, Kcinigsinschriften, p. 214 f). We should then have to assumethat, before completinjj his conquest of Sumer, he had already pushed upand across the Euphrates and had captured large districts of Amurru. It ispossible that this was so, but it should be noted that both Khallabu and Bit-Karkara are mentioned in the Prologue to Hammurabis Code of Laws, notwith ^the settlements on the Euplirates, but immediately after Lagash andGirsu, suggesting a Babylonian origin (see below, p. 159). ^ Cf. Rawlinson, Cun. Inscr. ^Vest. Asia, I., pi. .5, No. xvi. ; theerection of the wall is also commemorated in a date-formula of his reign (, Documents, p. 74). ^ On a clay cone from Mukayyar, recording his building of a temple toNannar at Ur, ^^a^ad-Sin describes himself as he who carries out the decrees /1 ^ c^ m m. BROXZE CONE AND VOTIVE Mils., \os. 90951 an(/ gioi6.
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