“Now Enlil, my helper, has made the Martu rise from their mountain lands. They will repel Elam and seize Icbi-Erra. To regain the Land will indeed make our might known in all the foreign lands.”

—  Ibbi-Sin

Letter from Ibbi-Suen to Puzur-Shulgi hoping for Ishbi-Erra's downfall http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3120.htm
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur

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