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recorded that he preceded him by 720 years, on his own inscriptions commemorating his construction of an adjacent Ishtar temple. From this it might be deduced that, despite later being among the "kings whose year names are not known", the reign length of Ilu-shuma was still known in the time of
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The historian M. Trolle Larsen has suggested that this represented an attempt to lure traders from the south of Assur with tax privileges and exemptions, to monopolize the exchange of copper from the gulf for tin from the east. The cities cited therefore are the three major caravan routes the
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Ilu-shuma's construction activities included building the old temple of Ishtar, a city wall, subdivision of the city into house plots and diversion of the flow of two springs to the city gates Aushum and Wertum.
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Tukulti-Ninurta I to be 21 years. Larsen has suggested that he may have been a contemporary of
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Emélie Kuhrt (1998). "The Old Assyrian merchants". In Helen Parkins, Christopher Smith (ed.).
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was a king of Assyria in the 20th century BCE. The length of his reign is uncertain, as the
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records his contemporary as Su-abu, who was once identified with the founder of the
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records him as one of the "six kings whose names were written on bricks, but whose
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records, "eighty-two kings of Assyria from Erishum I, son of Ilu-shuma, to
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commodities would have traveled rather than campaign routes for the king.
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Lines 27 to 28: i-šu dumu ilu-šum-ma -šu-ni 40 mu lugal dù.
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Index

Išši’ak Aššur
Shalim-ahum
Erishum I
Issue
Erishum I
Ikunum
Shalim-ahum
sovereign
DINGIR
Shalim-ahum
eponyms
lists of officials
Erishum I
Ikunum
Assur
Ashur
Ishtar
Ashurbanipal
Esarhaddon
Chronicle of Early Kings
First Dynasty of Babylon
Sumu-abum
Ur
Nippur
Awal
Der
Ishtaran
Tukultī-Ninurta I
Iddin-Dagan
Ishme-Dagan

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