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A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading

An early Hammurabi year-name records the taking of Isin. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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An early Hammurabi year-name records the taking of Isin. The dated early conquest is not the later Larsa war and not the Code stele. Hammurabi’s documented role is: Early year-names commemorate Isin. Scribes dated; he waged; later lists are not the year-name. Isin is an earlier heading. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

A rival southern kingship, unnamed troops, and later tablet dates already sit in the file. A year-name is not a unique census of Isin. Later ORACC is access. Named others on the file: Unnamed Babylonian troops, Isin’s people, and later year-list scribes share the heading. The public setting is the file around -1786-01-01. The instrument stays A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading. The setting of A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading is the public file around -1786-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Complex later year-name carrier. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated early conquest put a public force-heading into the south, distinct from later Larsa and Mari. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Isin is an earlier heading. Mixed effects of A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    Early year-names commemorate Isin. Scribes dated; he waged; later lists are not the year-name.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.ORACC — Hammurabi year names, ElamOpen Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

ORACC and Britannica independently mark Isin as a distinct early conquest heading. Official: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Isin (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, conquest of Isin (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Isin (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ (opens in a new tab); Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, conquest of Isin (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: an Isin year-name conquest heading. Not established: that Larsa is this same year. Established: a sourced public record of A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading under -1786-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading. Naming Hammurabi does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -1786-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactA year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-isin

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-isin

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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