Sabium (sà-bu-um also Sabum; died c. 1831 BC) was an Amorite King in the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Amorite Dynasty.[1] He ruled what was at the time a small recently created Amorite kingdom which included the town of Babylon. Sabium makes no claim of kingship of Babylon itself, suggesting that it had not yet grown into the major metropolis it would become under his descendant Hammurabi.[2] His is known to have maintained control over the city of Sippar, conquered by Sumu-la-El.[3] 14 year names of Sabium are
known including "Year the city wall of Kazallu was destroyed" and "Year the army of Larsa was smitten by weapons".[4]
↑Beaulieu, Paul (2018). A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. Pondicherry: Wiley. p.69. ISBN978-1405188999.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
↑Guichard, Michaël, "Un traité d’alliance entre Larsa, Uruk et Ešnunna contre Sabium de Babylone", Semitica 56, pp. 9-34, 2014
↑Waerzeggers, Caroline, "The Neo-Babylonian Chronicle about Sabium and Apil-Sîn: A Copy of the Text (BM 29440)", NABU, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 3, 2015
