Sabium

"Sabum" redirects here. For the aboriginal language of Malaysia, see Sabüm language.

Sabium (also Sabum) was an Amorite King in the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Amorite Dynasty. He reigned c. 1781 BC – 1767 BC (short chronology), and ruled what was at the time a recently created, small and minor Amorite kingdom which included the town of Babylon. Sabium makes no claim of kingship of Babylon itself, suggesting that it had not yet grown into the major metropolis it would become under his descendant Hammurabi

Year names

• Year Sabium (became) king
• Year Sabium the king entered the house of his father
• Year after the year in which the king established justice (BM 17084A)
• Year Sabium built the city wall of Kar-Szamasz (BE 6.1 10)
• Year after the year Sabium built the city wall of Kar-Szamasz (RlA 2 176 54)
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Year arable land (Gautier 10)

• Year the army of Larsa was smitten by weapons
• Year in which Sabium the king built (the temple) Ebabbar (of Szamasz) (RlA 2 176 58)
• Year in which various precious cups in stone were made for the temple of Szamasz (BM 17312)
• Year (Sabium) restored the house / temple of Ibbi-Anum (RlA 2 176, 59)
• Year in which Sabium the king built (the temple) Esagil, temple raising the head to heaven / temple in which the head of the king is raised (RlA 2 176, 60)
• Year in which Sabium made a statue in gold (RlA 2 176, 61)
• Year the city wall of Kazallu was destroyed (RlA 2 176, 62)
• Year Sabium the king deepened the irrigation ditch and the canal (called) 'a-abba-hegal' (RlA 2 176, 63)
• Year after the year (Sabium) the king deepened the irrigation ditch and the canal (called) 'a-abba-hegal' (RlA 2 176, 64)
• Year Szamasz, Marduk, Sabium and the city of Sippar ... (CT 4 53)
• Year in which Sabium made a garment for Nabu (BM 80107/8)
• Year after the year in which Sabium made a garment for Nabu (BM 80107/8)

See also

• Babylonia