Sippar and the Frontier between Ešnunna and Babylon. New Sources for the History of Ešnunna in the Old Babylonian Period

Frans van Koppen (1) , Denis Lacambre (2, 3)

1 Birkbeck College [University of London]
2 HALMA - Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164
3 Université de Lille

Three cuneiform tablets bearing year names of kings of Esnunna but discovered at Sippar on Babylonian territory are examined as a source for the political history and the social and economic interactions in the frontier zone between the Kingdoms of Esnunna and Babylon in the late 19th and early 18th century BC.

Mots clés: Ancient Near East; Ancient History; Assyriology; Assyriologie; Cuneiform; Eshnunna (Tell Asmar); Mesopotamian history; Middle Bronze Age; Near Eastern Studies; Old Babylonian period; Sippar; Iraq; Babylon; Mesopotamian chronology

Mots clés: Proche-Orient ancien; Histoire ancienne; Cunéiforme; Eshnunna (Tell Asmar); Histoire mésopotamienne; Âge du Bronze moyen; Études sur le Proche-Orient ancien; Période paléo-babylonienne; Sippar; Irak; Babylone; Chronologie mésopotamienne

Domaines: Histoire; Archéologie et Préhistoire; Art et histoire de l'art

Frans van Koppen, Denis Lacambre. Sippar and the Frontier between Ešnunna and Babylon. New Sources for the History of Ešnunna in the Old Babylonian Period. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 2009, 41, pp.151-177. ⟨halshs-02992246⟩