A sikkatu (cone/peg) inscribed in the Sumerian and Akkadianlanguages from the reign of Samsu-iluna (

A sikkatu (cone/peg) inscribed in the Sumerian and Akkadianlanguages from the reign of Samsu-iluna (1750 – 1742 BC).“…from the time when the brickwork of the temple Ebabbar was[first] constructed, [since] among the earlier kings, the sun godShamash favoured none of them [and consequently] no-one built thewall of Sippar for him.“I, Samsu-iluna, beloved of the gods Shamash and Aya, mighty king,king of Babylon,…by the levy of the army of my land, in the courseof that [same] year formed its bricks [and] raised high the wall ofSippar there like a great mountain.“I renovated the temple Ebabbar, raised high as heaven the top ofthe ziggurat, their lofty gigunnu temple, [and] brought the godsShamash, Adad [Hadad] and Aya into their shining dwelling amidst joyand rejoicing.”Under the reign of Hammurabi, nearly all of Mesopotamia was broughtunder Babylonian rule, but this was not without resistance. Samsu-iluna succeeded his father, and during his reign there wereviolent uprising in areas that had been previously conquered.  Thisforced Samsu-iluna to abandon several important cities, mostly inSumer.  The last king of the Sumerian Dynasty of Larsa, Rim-Sin II,was killed in 1738 BC in revolt against Babylon. -- source link

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