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thumb|Clay tablet and its sealed clay envelope. Legal document, listing of land and their distribution to several sons. From Sippar, Iraq. Old-Babylonian period. Reign of Sin-Muballit, c. 1813-1792 BC. , Berlin, Germany. Sin-Muballit (died 1792 BC) was the father of Hammurabi and the fifth Amorite king of the first dynasty (the Amorite Dynasty) of Babylonia. He ruled over a relatively new and minor kingdom; however, he was the first ruler of Babylon to actually declare himself king of the city, and the first to expand the territory ruled by the city, and his son greatly expanded the Babylonian

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Monarch.name
Sin-Muballit
Monarch.reign
c. 1813 – c. 1792 BC
Monarch.predecessor
Apil-Sin
Monarch.successor
Hammurabi
Monarch.death_date
c. 1792 BC
Monarch.issue
Hammurabi
Monarch.father
Apil-Sin
Monarch.succession
King of Babylon

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date of death
1793-00-00
date of birth
1850-00-00
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thumb|Clay tablet and its sealed clay envelope. Legal document, listing of land and their distribution to several sons. From Sippar, Iraq. Old-Babylonian period. Reign of Sin-Muballit, c. 1813-1792 BC. , Berlin, Germany. Sin-Muballit (died 1792 BC) was the father of Hammurabi and the fifth Amorite king of the first dynasty (the Amorite Dynasty) of Babylonia. He ruled over a relatively new and minor kingdom; however, he was the first ruler of Babylon to actually declare himself king of the city, and the first to expand the territory ruled by the city, and his son greatly expanded the Babylonian kingdom into the Babylonian Empire.

== Reign == Sin-Muballit succeeded his father Apil-Sin. No inscriptions for either king are known. A record of 19 year-names are preserved.

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