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Sealand dynasty
Origins
Around 1732 BCE Ilum-ma-ili rebelled against Samsu-iluna, son of Hammurabi, and established control over the marshlands at the head of the Gulf, known as the Sealand. He survived Babylonian counter-attacks, and his successors held the old Sumerian heartland as the Babylonian Empire contracted.
Rule and society
The Sealand kings left few monuments, and their capital is unknown, though recently published archives from the dynasty and excavations at Tell Khaiber near Ur show an organised state collecting grain and dates. Kings such as Ishkibal, Peshgaldaramesh and Ayadaragalama took archaic Sumerian-style names, and scribes copied Sumerian literature and omens, suggesting a self-conscious cultural revival. At times the dynasty held Nippur and Ur, and it probably controlled Gulf trade with Dilmun.
Decline and legacy
After the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1595 BCE, the Kassites took the north. Around 1460 BCE the Kassite king Ulamburiash conquered the Sealand, and its last king, Ea-gamil, fled to Elam. The south was then joined to Kassite Babylonia.
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- Sealand dynasty was conquered by Kassite Babylonia1460 BCE
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