| Sîn-māgir 𒀭𒂗𒍪𒈠𒄫 | |
|---|---|
| King ofIsin | |
.jpg) TheWeld-Blundell Prism bearing theSumerian King List in which Sîn-māgir appears as the last ruler, was probably made during his reign or soon after. | |
| Reign | c. 1827–1817 BC (MC) |
| Predecessor | Ur-dukuga |
| Successor | Damiq-ilišu |
| House | 1stDynasty of Isin |
Sîn-māgir (Akkadian:𒀭𒂗𒍪𒈠𒄫,Dsuen-ma-gir), inscribeddEN.ZU-ma-gir, “Sîn upholds,”[1] c. 1827–1817 BC (MC) was the 14th king ofIsin and he reigned for 11 years.[i 1]
His reign falls over the last six years ofWarad-Sin and the first five ofRim-Sin I, the sons ofKudur-Mabuk and successive kings ofLarsa, and wholly within the reign of theBabylonian monarchApil-Sin. There are currently six extant royal inscriptions, including brick palace inscriptions,[i 2] seals for his devoted servants, such as Iddin-damu, his “chief builder,” and Imgur-Sîn, his administrator, and a cone[i 3] which records the construction of a storehouse for the goddess Aktuppītum of Kiritab in his honor commissioned by Nupṭuptum, thelukur priestess or concubine, “his beloved traveling escort, mother of his first-born.”[2]
An inscription[i 4] marks the construction of a defensive wall, calledDūr-Sîn-māgir, “Sîn-māgir makes the foundation of his land firm,” at Dunnum, a city northeast ofNippur. Control of Nippur itself however may have shifted to Larsa, under the rule of Warad-Sîn and his father, Kudur-Mabuk, the power behind the throne, as his sixth year-name celebrates that he “had (14 copper statues brought into Nippur and) 3 thrones adorned with gold brought into the temples ofNanna,Ningal andUtu.” Larsa was to retain Nippur until year nine of Rīm-Sîn when it was lost toDamiq-ilišu. One of the cones bearing this inscription was found in the ruins of the temple ofNinurta, theé-ḫur-sag-tí-la, in Babylon, and is thought likely to have been an ancient museum piece. The city of Dunnum, the celebration of whose original foundation may have been the purpose of theDynasty of Dunnum myth,[3] was taken by Rim-Sin the year before he conquered Isin and so it is conjectured that the cone was taken from Larsa as booty byḪammu-rapī.
Two legal tablets offered for private sale, recording sales of a storehouse and palm grove, give a year-name elsewhere unattested, “year Sîn-māgir the king dug the Ninkarrak canal.”[i 5] Another year-name marks "(Sîn-māgir) built on the bank of theIturungal canal (the old wadi) a great fortification (called)Sîn-māgir-madana-dagal-dagal (Sîn-māgir broadens his country)." A province in the south and a town in eastern Babylonia near Tuplias are both calledBīt-Sîn-māgir and some historians have speculated one or other were named in his honor.[1]