A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . BROXZE CONE AND VOTIVE Mils., \os. 90951 an(/ STONE CYLINDER WITH A VOTIVE INSCRIPTION OF ARAD-SIN,KINC; OF A/jts. Ao. 9108s. THE WESTERN SEMITES 153 Babylon remained aloof in the north, and Sin-muballitis occupied with cutting canals and fortifying cities,some of which he perhaps occupied for the first time.^It was only in his fourteenth year, after Warad-Sin hadbeen succeeded at Larsa by his brother Rim-Sin, thatwe have evidence of Babylon taking an active part inopposing Elami
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . BROXZE CONE AND VOTIVE Mils., \os. 90951 an(/ STONE CYLINDER WITH A VOTIVE INSCRIPTION OF ARAD-SIN,KINC; OF A/jts. Ao. 9108s. THE WESTERN SEMITES 153 Babylon remained aloof in the north, and Sin-muballitis occupied with cutting canals and fortifying cities,some of which he perhaps occupied for the first time.^It was only in his fourteenth year, after Warad-Sin hadbeen succeeded at Larsa by his brother Rim-Sin, thatwe have evidence of Babylon taking an active part inopposing Elamite pretensions. In that year Sin-muballit records that he slew thearmy of Ur with the sword, and, since we know that Urwas at this time a vassal-city of Larsa, it is clear thatthe army referred to was one of those under Rim-Sinscommand. Three years later he transferred his atten-tion from Larsa to Nisin, then under the control ofDamik-ilishu, the son and successor of Sin-magir. Onthat occasion Sin-muballit commemorates his conquestof Nisin, but it must have been little more than avictory in the field, for Damik-ilishu lost neither hiscity nor
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