King Samsu-iluna of Babylon defeats the Kassites, Death of King Rim-Sîn II of Larsa

King Samsu-iluna of Babylon defeats the Kassites, Death of King Rim-Sîn II of Larsa

Year after the year Samsu-iluna the king made a royal plateform in copper (representing) mountains (and rivers)

TCL 1 128, BM 78773

Year in which Samsu-iluna the king (defeated) the totality of the strength of the army / the troops of the Kassites

RlA 2 182, 154

Samsu-iluna, the capable king… He made ready his weapons in order to kill his enemies and set out an expedition to slaughter his foes. The year was not half over when he killed [the rebel king] Rim-Sin [II of Larsa], who had caused [southern Mesopotamia] to rebel, and who had been elevated to the kingship of Larsa.

William Hamblin, Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC, (2006), pp. 179-80.

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