Iptar-Sin

Iptar-Sin or 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.

Iptar-Sin
Issi'ak Assur
King of Assur
Reign	c. 1661–1650 BC[1]
Predecessor	Sharma-Adad I
Successor	Bazaya
Issue	Bazaya
Father	Sharma-Adad I

Succession line and contemporaries

The Assyrian King List provides a sequence of five kings with short reigns purported to be father-son successions, leading Landsberger to suggest that Libaya, Sharma-Adad I and Iptar-Sin may have been brothers of Belu-bani rather than his descendants. The list reports Iptar-Sin as the son of Sharma-Adad I. He is omitted from the list on another fragment.^{[i 2][2]} 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 Bazaya, son of Belu-bani.

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. Bertman, Stephen (2003). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0195183641.
2. J. A. Brinkman (1999). Dietz Otto Edzard (ed.). Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia – Kizzuwatna. Vol. 5. Walter De Gruyter. pp. 23–24.

Preceded by Sharma-Adad I	King of Assyria 17th century BC	Succeeded by Bazaya