Sabium

Sabium (also Sabum) was an Amorite King in the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Amorite Dynasty. He reigned c. 1844 BC – 1831 BC (middle chronology),[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Beaulieu, Paul (2018). A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. Pondicherry: Wiley. p. 69. ISBN 978-1405188999.
  2. ^ Year names of Sabium of Babylon - CDLI