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Erra-imitti

r. c. 1868–1861 BCE · 19th century BCE

Erra-imitti was a king of the Isin dynasty in Mesopotamia in the 19th century BCE, a time when Isin was losing ground to Larsa. He is best remembered from a later Babylonian chronicle, which says that he placed the gardener Enlil-bani on the throne as a substitute king and then died while eating hot porridge, leaving Enlil-bani as king.

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