History
Ibbi-Sin
The last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, under whom the last great Sumerian-speaking state fell to Elam and its allies around 2004 BCE.
Illustration of The Third Dynasty of Ur, not a likeness of any person on this page.
- Standing:
- A real person. Objects, inscriptions or archives made in their own lifetime carry their name.
- Reigned:
- c. 2028 to 2004 BCE
- City:
- Ur
- Period:
- The Third Dynasty of Ur · c. 2112 to 2004 BCE
What they did
presided over a collapse he could not stop; his letters and the failing grain accounts of his final years survive, which makes his reign one of the best documented failures in the ancient world. The fall is mourned in the Lament for Ur.
Sources
The references this entry is drawn from. ETCSL is the scholarly edition for the Sumerian texts; the rest are general references for the archaeology and the dates.
In the same period
Others our chronology places in The Third Dynasty of Ur.
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