PARSHURAM
/ BUR-SIN - I
![](640px-Cylinder_seal_of_Bur-Sin.jpg)
Cylinder
seal of Bur-Sin
Parshuram
/ Bur-Sîn (inscribed bur-EN.ZU), c. 1831 – 1811 BC (short
chronology) or c. 1895 – 1874 BC (middle chronology) was the
7th king of the 1st Dynasty of Isin and ruled for 21 years according
to the Sumerian King List, 22 years according to the Ur-Isin king
list. His reign was characterized by an ebb and flow in hegemony
over the religious centers of Nippur and Ur.
Biography
:
The titles “shepherd who makes Nippur content,” "mighty
farmer of Ur," “who restores the designs for Eridu”
and “en priest for the mes, for Uruk” were used by Bur-Sîn
in his standard brick inscriptions in Nippur and Isin, although
it seems unlikely that his rule stretched to Ur or Eridu at this
time as the only inscriptions with an archaeological provenance
come from the two northerly cities. A solitary tablet from Ur is
dated to his first year, but this is thought to correspond to Abe-sare’s
year 11, for which several tablets attest to his reign over Ur.
He
was contemporary with the tail end of the reign of Abi-sare, ca,
1841 to 1830 BC (short) and that of Sumú-El, c. 1830 to 1801
BC (short), the kings of Larsa. This latter king’s year-names
record victories over Akusum, Kazallu, Uruk (which had seceded from
Isin), Lugal-Sîn, Ka-ida, Sabum, Kiš, and village of
Nanna-isa, relentlessly edging north and feverish activity digging
canals or filling them in, possibly to counter the measures taken
by Bur-Sîn to contain him. Only nine of Bur-Sîn's own
year-names are known and the sequence is uncertain. He seized control
of Kisurra for a time as two year-names are found among tablets
from this city, possibly following the departure of Sumu-abum
/ Sumu-abu / Su-abu / Subahu the king of Babylon who “returned
to his city.” The occupation was brief, however, as Sumu-El
was to conquer it during his fourth year. Other year-names record
Bur-Sîn's construction of fortifications, walls on the bank
of the Eurphrates and a canal. A year-name of Sumu-El records “Year
after the year Sumu-El has opened the palace (?) of Nippur,”
whose place in this king’s sequence is unknown.
A
red-brown agate statuette was dedicated to goddess Inanna and an
agate plate was dedicated by the lukur priestess and his “traveling
companion,” i.e. concubine, Nanaia Ibsa. A certain individual
by the name of Enlil-ennam dedicated a dog figurine to the goddess
Ninisina for the life of the king. There are around five extant
seals and seal impressions of his servants and scribes, three of
which were excavated in Ur suggesting a fleeting late reoccupancy
of this city at the end of his reign and the beginning of his successor's
as coincidentally no texts from Ur bear Sumu-El's years 19 to 22
which correspond with this period.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/B%C5%ABr-S%C3%AEn