Bilalama (died 1962 BC) was a 20th century BC ruler of Eshnunna, an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom located in the Diyala Valley in modern Iraq.
Bilalama (died 1962 BC) was a 20th century BC ruler of Eshnunna, an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom located in the Diyala Valley in modern Iraq.
==Background== It is assumed that Bilalama was a contemporary of Ishbi-Erra and Shu-Ilishu of Isin. He was the son of the previous ruler of Eshnunna, Kirikiri. The names of both Bilalama and Kirikiri are Elamite, which according to Katrin de Graef might indicate that a dynastic change occurred in the city after the reign of their predecessor . However, it is not clear if they necessarily were Elamites themselves, or if their names only reflect a high level of Elamite cultural influence on Eshnunna.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).