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Revision as of 08:27, 18 December 2024 by Raven rs (talk | contribs) (Opening this article about a King of Hana)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Isi-Sumuabi or Iṣī-Sumuabu was king of Terqa and king of the land of H̬ana around 1735 BC .
He is known from a number of clay tablets from the city of Ṭābatum on the middle reaches of the H̬abur , which belonged to his kingdom. Two of these are letters to Yasīm-Mahar, who was his local governor. There are two other tablets in which he is mentioned. They are of a legal-administrative nature. One of them deals with the monthly rotation in connection with the pudûm ceremony for the sun god Šamaš . His name appears in the year name with which the tablet is dated: the "year that Iṣī-Sumuabi ... dedicated to Šamaš". This immediately makes his royal dignity crystal clear and the fact that in Ṭābatum the calendar was based on his regnal years. The other tablet concerns the grant of a piece of land in which he is called "king". The tablet also clearly shows that it was written in the legal tradition of H̬ana. The punishment for breaking the contract is to be smeared with hot asphalt . It dates from a different year, the year name of which refers to a project in which work was being done on the course of the river. The king is also mentioned elsewhere, for example in a contract found in Terqa which was further downstream on the Euphrates. There is also a contract from Haradum , another 90 km further downstream in which he is mentioned. With this he ruled over an area not much inferior to the land of Zimri-Lim of Mari .
Iṣī-Sumuabi was the successor of Yapah-Sumu. In his time, and that of Samsu-iluna , H̬ana must have regained his independence from Babylonia , but nothing else is known about him. Iṣī-Sumuabi was succeeded by Yadih-abu. They must have reigned as independent kings for about 20-30 years, but the precise chronology is not clear.