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

Date: 1786

## The fact

An early [Hammurabi](/people/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. Do not twin this with Larsa. Isin is an earlier heading. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hammurabi's documented role is: Early year-names commemorate Isin. Scribes dated; he waged; later lists are not the year-name.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

ORACC and Britannica independently mark Isin as a distinct early conquest heading. Official: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Isin (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent: Britannica — Hammurabi, conquest of Isin (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; 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/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). Independent carrier: Britannica — Hammurabi, conquest of Isin (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: ORACC — Hammurabi year names, Isin (https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/; Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus).

## Significance

Worsening humanitarian-access path: a commemorated city-taking. 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. Do not twin this with Larsa. Isin is an earlier heading. Mixed effects of A year-name records the taking of Isin as a completed conquest heading are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Hammurabi: https://factrail.ai/people/hammurabi

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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