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Multi-periodSite Name: IsinCountry: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Baghdad Nearest Village: Ishan al-Bahriyat
Latitude: 31.933330N Longitude: 45.283330E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Isin flourished during the 20th century BCE. No kings of Isin are known from the Sumerian period, but the "Isin Dynasty" refers to Amorite states that gained independence with the decline of the 3rd dynasty of Ur and ended about 1730 BCE. When the Third Dynasty of Ur slowly collapsed in at the end of the third millennium BCE, a power vacuum was left that the larger city-states scrambled to fill. Sumeria desintegrated under Ibbi-Sin, the last king of the Ur Dynasty, during the Elamite invasion. Ishbi-Erra, an Ur governmental officials, relocated to Isin and established himself as a ruler there. Although other competing Sumerian successor city states flourished, Ishbi-Errahe managed to defeat the Elamites. This allowed the Isin dynasty to flourish for over 100 years and to control the culturally significant cities of Ur, Uruk, and the Nippur spiritual center. Remains of large temples complexes have been excavated along with tablets containing edicts and law-codes from that period. Tablets refer to comles ceremonies of saced marriages of the king with temple pristesses representing the goddess of love and war Inanna or Iishtar, which ws supposed to bring stability and prosperity to the kingdom. Trade routes to the Persian gulf and Arab regions remained an important source of income for Isin. Problem with access to water sources and a coup by the governor of Lagash, Gungunum, led to the rapid decline of Isin. Around 1860, an outsider named Enlil-bani seized the throne of Isin. Later Isin was taken over by Larsa's ruler Rim-Sin. The site was being excavated since the 1980s by German archaeologists team but now looters are destroying the site. Hundreds of thousands of artifacts, including cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals, have ended up on the black market.
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