Hammurabi's Babylon

A History of Mankind (28)

As it was, Assyria’s Ishme-Dagan had a long if difficult reign of about 40 years from 1776 BC. He lost much territory to rival Amorite princes including Hammurabi, and was forced into a possibly unequal alliance with Zaziya, one of the last known Hurrian warlords from Anatolia; he ended up marrying his son Mut-Ashkur to Zaziya's daughter.

For Hammurabi, …