"Urim, your , rivalling heaven and earth, whose great prince you are, [...] which dispenses the divine powers and makes the foundations and the plans firm both in the south and in the uplands, will surely escape from the grasp."
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Ishbi-Erra
(Akkadian: Išbi-erra, name was written phonetically in : ddiš-bi-èr-ra, in contemporary inscriptions; fl. c. 1953 BCE — c. 1920 BCE by the short ) was the founder of the . Ishbi-Erra was preceded by Ibbi-Sin of the in ancient , and then succeeded by Šu-ilišu.
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