Ibbi-Sin

Ibbi -Sin (also Ibbi - Suen ) was from 2028 to 2004 BC, the fifth and last ruler of the III. Dynasty of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia ( now Iraq ). Ibbi -Sin -Sin Šu followed his father to the throne. He married Geme - Enlila. He was successively in three Sumerian cities - Ur, Uruk and Nippur - crowned. When he ascended the throne, he was still very young. The fact that most of the leading officials still remained in office, however, shows that it was not was a change in the political line immediately. Taxes ( in the form of cattle ) were included from all parts of the empire, and two literary works in the Sumerian language, which originated at the beginning of Ibbi -Sin 's reign, suggesting that the country was not affected by any disaster.

Reign

After the second year of the reign heard a city after another, recognize Ibbi - Sins authority; Legal and administrative documents from these places are no longer dated official annual formulas with Ibbi -Sin. That one has faced a military threat, the fact that the annual formula for Ibbi Sins - sixth year of the reign the repair of defense equipment in the key cities of Nippur and Ur is mentioned.

Over the course of events taught us addressed to Ibbi -Sin letter from one ISBI Erra, a foreigner from Mari, who had entered the service of Ibbi -Sin and was the collapse of the Empire, king of Isin.

In Ur inflation came in, took the devastating forms. Since the grain-growing areas were lost to the Amorites, inflation and famine attacked undoubtedly spread to other parts of Sumer; later omen - literature reports of riots and rebellions against Ibbi -Sin. From the omission of the annual formulas Ibbi - Sis after his seventh year of the reign one can conclude that there is now no longer recognized him in Nippur, the city of the god Enlil, by which the royal dignity was conferred.

So shrank Ibbi - Sins empire together more and more until it eventually encompassed little more than the city-state of Ur. With the collapse of central authority in Sumer and Akkad himself saw the land exposed to the repeated onslaught of mountain peoples in the east. For several years before the end of Ibbi -Sin's reign Elamite peoples in raids had penetrated into the country.

In the 24th year of the reign of Ibbi -Sin attacked a group of peoples from Elam, possibly Hutran - Tepti his country again: Ur was destroyed and brought Ibbi -Sin as a captive to Elam. So went the III. Dynasty of Ur under. In Ur Own Elamite garrison was left in the ruins of the capital. From there it was only years later supplanted by ISBI Erra.