Editing Kish (Sumer) (section)

===Old Babylonian period===
By the early part of the [[First Dynasty of Babylon]] Kish was under the control of Babylon with the tenth year name of ruler [[Sumu-abum]] (c. 1897–1883 BC) being "Year in which (Sumu-abum) made for Kish its city wall (reaching) heaven" (repeated in following year). Not long afterward, Kish was conquered by [[Sumuel]] of [[Larsa]] as reflected in his eleventh year name "Year the army of Kisz was smitten by weapons", repeated in the following three year names. In the 13th year of [[Sumu-la-El]] he reports destroying Kish (repeated in following four years) and then destroying the city wall of Kish in his 19th year and in his 30th year "Year the temple of Zababa, the Emeteursag / the house, ornament of the heros (Zababa), was built". At this point Kish came under the control of the city-state of [[Eshnunna]] under rulers <sup>[[dingir|D]]</sup>Ipiq-Adad II and <sup>[[dingir|D]]</sup>[[Naram-Suen of Eshnunna|Naram-Sin]]. By the time of Babylon ruler [[Sin-Muballit]] (c. 1813–1792 BC), father of [[Hammurabi]], Kish was firmly under the control of Babylon and would stay that way until the waning days of the [[First Dynasty of Babylon]]. The rulers of Babylon at its peak of power, Hammurabi and [[Samsu-iluna]], are known to have done extensive construction at Kish, including rebuilding the city wall. By this time, the eastern settlement at Hursagkalama had become viewed as a distinct city, and it was probably not included in the walled area.<ref name="Gibson">[http://hdl.handle.net/11401/89091] Gibson, McGuire, "The City and Area of Kish", Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, Field Research Projects, 1972</ref>

At some period or periods within the Old Babylonian period, Kish was under the control of a series of rulers generally called the [[Manana Dynasty]]. Most of what is known comes from two illicitly excavated archive thought to be from the town of Damrum, near Kish.<ref>de Boer, Rients, "Two early Old Babylonian "Mananâ" archives dated to the last years of Sumu-la-El", ''Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale'', vol. 111, pp. 25–64, 2017</ref><ref>Simmons, Stephen D., "Early Old Babylonian Tablets from Harmal and Elsewhere (Continued)", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 75–87, 1960</ref><ref>Charpin, D., "Recherches sur la “dynastie de Mananâ”: Essai de localisation et de chronologie", RA 72, pp. 13–40, 1978</ref> These rulers include Iawian, Halium, Abdi-Erah, Manana, and four others. Several year names of Iawium are known including "Year Sumu-ditana died". [[Samsu-Ditana]] was the last ruler of the First Dynasty of Babylon.<ref>Yuhong, Wu, and Stephanie Dalley,  "The Origins of the Manana Dynasty at Kish, and the Assyrian King List", ''Iraq'', vol. 52, pp. 159–65, 1990</ref> One ruler, Ashduniarim is known from a long inscription on a clay foundation cone found at Kish.
{{blockquote|text="Ašdũni-iarīm, the mighty man, beloved of Ištar, favored by Zababa, king of Kiš, when the world quarters four became hostile to me, for eight years battle I waged, and in the eighth year my opponent to clay indeed turned. ... "<ref>“RIME 4.08.01.01 Composite Artifact Entry.” 2013. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). January 20, 2013. https://cdli.ucla.edu/P448588.</ref>}}