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HISTORICALOUTLINE 17
5. LibiHstar. Baked clay peg, CT. XXI, 18 = 1 R. 5, no. 18.
Gungunu, king of Larsa. One brick. A clay peg mentioning a
temple built to him by the son of ISme-Dagan.
6. Ur-Ninib. Two dated tablets, HILPRECHT,BE., Ser. D, V, pt. 1,
p.38.
7. Bur-Sin. Four dated tablets, ibid.
8. !ter-pisa. Three dated tablets, HILPRECHT,BE. XX, pt. 1, p. 49.
9. Ura-imitti. One dated tablet, HILPRECHT, ZA. XXI, 27.
10. Sin-i~isam. Two dated tablets, BM. 11107, in OLZ. 1907,
Sp. 461 ff. (POEBEL), and BM. 11560, BE. Ser. D, V, pt.1, p. 37 n. 2.
11. Enlil-bani. Seven tablets, Constantinople, Ni. 353 = SCHEIL,
RT. XIX, 59. BM. 11564. Const., Ni. 1898. Others not defined,
v. HILPRECHT, BE. Ser. D, V, pt. 1, p. 38.
Sumu-iZu, king of Larsa; a dog inscribed and dedicated for his life.
12. Zambia. Twotablets. OLZ., 1907, Sp. 385. Onenotdefined,
HILPRECHT,ibid.
13, 14. unknown.
Nur-Immer, king of Larsa, clay pego
15. Sin-magir. Two fragments of a cone, WEISSBACH,MiseeZ, pl. I.
16. Dami~-ili-su. Six tablets; SCHEIL,RT. XXIII, 93 and HILPR.,
ibid., p. 49.
Sin-idinnam, king of Larsa, three clay pegs and one brick SAK.
208-11.
§ 17. With the disappearance of the dynasty of Isin whose members
were themselves Semites, Babylonia must have been thoroughly Semi­
ticised. The contracts written at Babylon, Sippar and Erech are in
the main Semitic from the middle of this dynasty onward. Nippur,
however, continued to be a Sumerian speaking city as late as the rise
of the Sea Dynasty under lluma-iZa '. Sumerian seems to have been the
officiallal1guage of Arad-Sin (Eri-agu) and Rim-Sin, last of the kings
of Larsa [SAK. 210-221], as well as of a late dynasty at Erech [ibid.,
1. Valuable material consisting of Sumerian business documents from this
period is published by POEBEL, BE. VI, pt. 2.
GRAM. SUMo 2
Sumerian
ceases to be
spoken.