Ipiq- Adad II, the king of Eshnunna (1850-1813 B.C) New Ruling Year

AL-Jobouri, Ahmed

	Ipiq- Adad II, the king of Eshnunna (1850-1813 B.C) New Ruling Year
AL-AMEED JOURNAL
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-365
Author
Ahmed AL-Jobouri
Abstract
Chronology considered as one of the important sources used in studying the historical political events happened in a specific period belonged to the king Ipiq-Adad II of Eshnunna (1850-1813 B.C). He was the 16th in dynasty of the rulers of Eshnunna. The site of the kingdom of Eshnunna lies in Diyala district and established by the Amorite people who had entered Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C. It was one of the strongest kingdom ruling the Eastern Mesopotamia. It was a rival to dynasties of Babylon, Ashur and Mari in controlling the whole land between the two rivers. The economic text ,No. 92033 IM, on which a new ruling year recorded, was found in the AL-Seeb hill, one of the hills of which the city of Meturan consist and lies which lies in Hemrin dam included in the process of rescue carried out by the State Foundation for Archaeology and Heritage 1977. Before 1996, the Archaeologists knew very little about the reign of this king. But the new archaeological investigations and the new findings of excavation have shown the presence of a new ruling year which is the focus of the present research paper. Such a ruling year revealed new information about the invasion of the city, AL-Der extending in the same site of Badra, Wasit, the present Wasit province. Ultimately, it is to reach to pinpoint more than 20 years of his reign ramified into deeds various, military, political, architectural and religious.

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