Warad-Sin (, ARAD-Dsuen; died 1823 BC) ruled the ancient Near East city-state of Larsa. His royal titulary included "governor of Ur", "governor of Lagash, and governor of the "land of Kutalla". At the beginning of his reign the kingdom of Larsa was partly occupied by Kazallu and. Grice, Ettalene Mears, "Chronology of the Larsa dynasty", Yale University Press, 1919 Larsa under Warad-Sin and Babylon acted together to destroy Kazallu. His father Kudur-Mabuk powerful figure in Larsa. His sister En-ane-du became en-priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur in the 7th or 8th year of his reign. She continued in that role until at least the 29th year of his successor Rim-Sin I.Stol, Marten, "Priestesses", Women in the Ancient Near East, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 555-583, 2016Gadd, C. J., "En-an-e-Du", Iraq, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 27–39, 1951 He was a contemporary of Isin rulers Iter-pisa, Ur-du-kuga, and Sîn-magir. It is also known that Warad-Sîn of Larsa and Sîn-iribam of Uruk were contemporaries from a Warad-Sîn year 4 text that contains oaths by both kings.Edzard, D.O., "Die "zweite Zwischenzeit" Babyloniens", Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1957 It has been suggested that Warad-Sin was the father of later Larsa ruler Rim-Sin II. Rositani, A, "Rim-Anum Texts in the British Museum", Nisaba 4, Rome: DiScAM, 2003
All 12 year names of Warad-Sin are known (most of a religious nature), notably:Year Names of Warad-Sin at CDLI Marcel Segrist, "Larsa Year Names", Andrews University Press, 1990 Year the city wall of Kazallu was destroyed and the army of Mutibal occupying Larsa was smitten by weapons Year in which Enanedu was installed as en-priestess of Nanna in Ur Year the great wall of Ur was built Year the city (wall) of Al-Šarrākī (Irisaĝrig) was restored Year the temple of Nin-ga'uga in Maskan-Sapir was built
For the first half of his reign Warad-Sin referred to his father Kudur-Mabuk af "father of the Amorite land" and in the second half as "father of Emutbala". Like all those in the Nur-Adad dynastic Warad-Sin never refers to himself as an Amorite in any of his inscriptions. M. Fitzgerald, "The Rulers of Larsa", Yale University Dissertation, 2002
An inscribed stone foundation cylinder of Warad-Sin was found at Zabalam "For the goddess Inana-of-Zabalam, my lady, (I), Warad-Sîn, king of Larsa, for my life and for the life of Kudur-Mabuk, the father who engendered me, built for her the Gigunaku, her martial residence ...". A inscribed bronze canephor was also found "For the goddess Inana-of-Zabala, daughter of the god Sin, my lady, I Warad-Sin, who am king of Larsa, for my life and for the life of Kudur-Mabuk, the father who engendered me, (the goddess Inanna), having never agreed to allow any of my royal ancestors to build (the temple) Gigunaku, (that is) Esagil ...".Fahad, Saad S., "Two Unpublished Texts from Zabalam (Ibzikh) Dated to the Reign of Warad-Sin", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 68, pp. 3-8, 2016
Bastion of Warad-Sin at Ur lies at the north-west end of the ziggurat. A foundatiuon cone of Warad-Sin was found in the brickwork.Woolley, Leonard, "The Ziggurat and Its Surroundings", Ur Excavations V, Oxford University Press, 1939 The text mentions his father "... When Namrasit, the god of the new moon, had revealed to me his favorable omen, had directed on me his look of life, had commanded me to build his temple, to restore its place, for my own life, and the life of Kudurmabug, the father who begat me, his house, joy of the heart, E-temennigur, I built for him ...".Gadd, C. J., and L. Legrain, "Ur Excavations Texts I: Royal Inscriptions.", Trustees of the Two Museums, 1928 A clay cone found at the temple of Ningal which read "... the walls and foundation of her 'house Ilurugu of the land,'her beloved 'house', which had been erected in long-gone days, had aged. He (Warad-Sin) did not remove its foundation deposit, but repaired its aged underside ...".Heimpel, W., "The Location of Madga", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 61, pp. 25-61, 2009
See also Chronology of the ancient Near East List of Mesopotamian dynasties
References
Further reading Abraham, Kathleen, "New Evidence for Warad-Sîn's Mu-Malgium-Basig (‘The Destruction of Malgium') Year Name", Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 102.1, pp. 27-38, 2008 Blocher, Felix, "Zum Zweck der Bastion Warad-Sins in Ur", Stories of Long Ago. Festschrift für Michael D. Roaf, hrsg. v. Heather D. Baker, Kai Kaniuth, Adelheid Otto (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 397), pp. 45-56, 2012 deJong Ellis, Maria, "The chronological placement of King Rim-Anum", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 80.1, pp. 65-72, 1986 Fiette, Baptiste, "‘King’ Kudur-Mabuk: A Study on the Identity of a Mesopotamian Ruler Without a Crown", Die Welt Des Orients, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 275–94, 2020 Grice, Ettalene Mears", Records from Ur and Larsa dated in the Larsa Dynasty", Vol. 5. Yale University Press, 1919.
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External links Warad-Sin texts with translations at CDLI