Zabaia

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Zabaia
Governor of Larsa
Reignc. 1941 - c. 1932 BC
Diedc. 1932 BC
Father Samium

Zabaia (or Zabaya; (died c. 1932 BC) governed the ancient Near East city of Larsa from around 1941 BC to 1932 BC (MC). He was an Amorite and the son of Samium. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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A brick inscription found at Larsa reads, "Zabaya, Chief of the Amorites, son of Samium, re-built the Ebabbar" (Zabaya rabian Amurri mar Samium Ebabbara ipus). The E-babbar is a temple of the god Shamash. An alternate reading is the he "built" the Ebabbar". [5] This is the only known textual mention of Samium outside the Larsa King List. [6] [7] A damaged clay cone found at Mashkan-shapir carries a similar text. [8] Larsa ruler Abisare also used the "Chief of the Amorites" title. [9]

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  1. ↑ M. Fitzgerald, "The Rulers of Larsa", Yale University Dissertation, 2002
  2. ↑ Larsa Year Names, Marcel Segrist, Andrews University Press, 1990, ISBN   0-943872-54-5
  3. ↑ Chronology of the Larsa Dynasty, E.M. Grice, C.E. Keiser, M. Jastrow, AMS Press, 1979, ISBN   0-404-60274-6
  4. ↑ David B. Weisberg, "Zabaya, an Early King of the Larsa Dynasty", Journal of Cuneiform Studies , 41 (1989), pp. 194-198
  5. ↑ Douglas Frayne, "Larsa", Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 B.C.): Early Periods, Volume 4, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 107-322, 1990
  6. ↑ Birot, Maurice, "Découvertes épigraphiques à Larsa (campagnes 1967)", Syria 45, pp. 241-247, 1968
  7. ↑ Weisberg, David B., "Zabaya, an Early King of the Larsa Dynasty", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 194–98, 1989
  8. ↑ Steinkeller, Piotr, "A Building Inscription of Sin-iddinam and Other Inscribed Materials from Abu Duwari", The Anatomy of a Mesopotamian City: Survey and Soundings at Mashkan-shapir, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 135-152, 2004
  9. ↑ Jahn, Brit, "The Migration and Sedentarization of the Amorites from the Point of View of the Settled Babylonian Population", Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, edited by Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 193-210, 2007
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