Skip to content
Erra-imitti

Image by cermanni on Pixabay · Pixabay License

EntityQ2997591· pop 16· linked from 112 articles

Erra-imitti

Sign in to save

Also known as Irra Imitti

Erra-Imittī, (cuneiform: dèr-ra-i-mit-ti or èr-ra-ZAG.LU meaning “Support of Erra”; died 1861 BC) was king of Isin, modern Ishan al-Bahriyat, and according to the Sumerian King List ruled for eight years. He succeeded Lipit-Enlil, with whom his relationship is uncertain and was a contemporary and rival of Sumuel and Nur-Adad of the dynasty of Larsa. He is best known for the legendary tale of his demise, Shaffer’s “gastronomic mishap”.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Country
US
Active from
2009

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Key facts

Royalty.name
Erra-Imitti
Royalty.succession
King of Isin
Royalty.reign
c. 1868 - c. 1861 BC
Royalty.predecessor
Lipit-Enlil
Royalty.dynasty
First Dynasty of Isin
Royalty.death_date
c. 1861 BC

via Wikipedia infobox

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Biography
  • See also
  • Inscriptions
  • Notes
  • External links
  • References

Erra-Imittī, (cuneiform: dèr-ra-i-mit-ti or èr-ra-ZAG.LU meaning “Support of Erra”; died 1861 BC) was king of Isin, modern Ishan al-Bahriyat, and according to the Sumerian King List ruled for eight years. He succeeded Lipit-Enlil, with whom his relationship is uncertain and was a contemporary and rival of Sumuel and Nur-Adad of the dynasty of Larsa. He is best known for the legendary tale of his demise, Shaffer’s “gastronomic mishap”.

==Biography==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erra-imitti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.