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    Lipit-Ishtar (Akkadian: Lipit-Ištar; fl. c. 1870 BC – c. 1860 BC by the short chronology of the ancient Near East) was the 5th king of the First Dynasty...
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    The Code of Lipit-Ishtar is a collection of laws promulgated by Lipit-Ishtar (r. 1934 – 1924 BCE (MC)), a ruler in Lower Mesopotamia. As cuneiform law...
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  • successor of Iddin-Dagān. Lipit-Ištar then succeeded Išme-Dagān. Išme-Dagān was one of the kings to restore the Ekur. Lipit-Ishtar (fl. c. 1859—1848 BCE by...
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    and decisions made by kings. The codes of Urukagina and Lipit-Ishtar (the Code of Lipit-Ishtar) have been found. The most renowned of these was that of...
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    Extant collections include: The Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur. The Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin. The Laws of Eshnunna (written by Bilalama or by Dadusha). Another...
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    the Code of Eshnunna (approximately 100 years before Lipit-Ishtar), the Code of Lipit-Ishtar (1934–1924 BC), and the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (c...
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    found in Nippur, Sippar and Ur Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) Code of Lipit-Ishtar (c. 1870 BC) Babylonian law Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC in middle chronology)...
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  • of Ur (c. 2050 BC), the Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) and the Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BC). Later codes than Hammurabi's include the Code of...
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    Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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    Ibbi-Sin Isin dynasty - Ishbi-Erra, Shu-Ilishu, Iddin-Dagan, Ishme-Dagan, Lipit-Ishtar, Ur-Ninurta, Bur-Suen, Enlil-bani Larsa dynasty - Gungunum, Sin-Iddinam...
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    (Sumerian: Huwawa) and the Bull of Heaven, who is sent to attack them by Ishtar (Sumerian: Inanna) after Gilgamesh rejects her offer for him to become her...
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    2050 BC). Some of the better-known ancient law codes are the code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin, the code of Hammurabi of Babylonia, the Hittite code, the Assyrian...
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  • of Ur (c. 2050 BC), the Code of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) and the Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BC). These law codes formalized the role of money in...
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  • he built in a grand fashion the great wall of Bad-tibira". Isin ruler Lipit-Ishtar, "the shepherd of Nippur", claimed to have built the "House of Righteousness"...
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    Drewnowska-Rymarz assumes that the evidence only makes it plausible that king Lipit-Ishtar regarded Nanaya as a daughter of Inanna. Joan Goodnick Westenholz describes...
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    izbu, Šumma ālu, Namburbi, and Iškar Zaqīqu 1900 BC: Sumerian Code of Lipit-Ishtar and The Legend of Adapa 1900 BC: Egyptian Instructions of Kagemni 1859...
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    Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 71, pp. 3–9, 2019 Reade, Julian, "The Ishtar Temple at Nineveh", Iraq 67.1, pp. 347-390, 2005 Potts, D. T. (1999). The...
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    predated by the Code of Ur-Nammu, the Laws of Eshnunna, and the Code of Lipit-Ishtar. Barton, a former professor of Semitic languages at the University of...
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    Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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  • with the other cuneiform collections of Ur-Nammu (21st century BCE), Lipit-Ishtar (19th century BCE), the kingdom of Eshnunna (c. 1800 BCE), the Hittite...
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    Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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  • priestess who represented the goddess of love and war, Inanna (also known as Ishtar). This was thought to strengthen the king's relationship to the gods, which...
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  • Empire Eshnunna Cuneiform law Code of Hammurabi Code of Ur-Nammu Code of Lipit-Ishtar List of ancient legal codes Albrecht Goetze, "The Laws of Eshnunna",...
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    arrival of the Amorites, the existence of three new codes of laws: Code of Lipit-Ishtar: proceeds from Nippur and was written in Sumerian. It was promulgated...
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    Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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  • Ur III Dynasty; Shu-Ilishu, Iddin-Dagan, Ishme-Dagan, Lipit-Ishtar, Ur-Ninurta, Būr-Sîn, Lipit-Enlil, Erra-imitti, Enlil-bani, Zambiya, Iter-pûsha, Ur-dukuga...
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  • Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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  • speaks of witchcraft and the flight of slaves. c. 1934-1924 BC – Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin – With a typical epilogue and prologue, the law deals with penalties...
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    foundation cones from southern Iraq. The names of Gudea, Ur-Nammu, and Lipit-Ishtar. From Ur, Kish, and Warka, Iraq. Iraq Museum Nammu: the god Ur-Nammu...
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  • Dynasty of Isin Ishbi-Erra Shu-Ilishu Iddin-Dagan Ishme-Dagan Lipit-Ishtar Ur-Ninurta Būr-Sîn Lipit-Enlil Erra-imitti Enlil-bani Zambiya Iter-pisha Ur-du-kuga...
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