Iptar-Sin

IB.TAR.Sîn^{[nb 1]} (reading uncertain), was the 51st Assyrian king according to the Assyrian King List.^{[i 1]} He reigned for 12 years some time during the 17th century BC.

Biography

The Assyrian King List provides a sequence of five kings with short reigns purported to be father-son successions, leading Landsberger to suggest that Labaj(j)a, Šarma-Adad I and IB.TAR.Sîn may have been brothers of Bēlu-bāni rather than his descendants. It reports him as the son of Šarma-Adad I. He is omitted from the list on another fragment.^{[i 2][1]} He is called LIK.KUD-Šamaš on the Synchronistic King List^{[i 3]} which gives his Babylonian counterpart as ^mDIŠ+U-EN (reading unknown), an unidentified person inserted between the reigns of Gulkišar and his son Pešgaldarameš of the Sealand Dynasty.

He was succeeded by Bazaj(j)a, son of Bēlu-bāni.

Inscriptions

1. Ḫorsābād King List ii 18.
2. KAV 14.
3. Synchronistic King List A.117, Assur 14616c, i 5.

Notes

1. ^mIB.TAR-^d30.

References

1. J. A. Brinkman (1999). Dietz Otto Edzard, ed. Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia – Kizzuwatna 5. Walter De Gruyter. pp. 23–24.