In the prologue to the Code of Hammurabi the king lists the following cities
as belonging to his dominions: Eridu near Ur, Ur, Lagash and Girsu, Zabalam,
Larsa, Uruk, Adab, Isin, Nippur, Keshi, Dilbat, Borsippa, Babylon itself, Kish,
Malgium, Mashkan-shapir, Kutha, Sippar, Eshnunna in the Diyala region, Mari,
Tuttul on the lower Balikh (a tributary of the Euphrates), and finally Ashur and
Nineveh. This was on a scale reminiscent of Akkad or Ur III. Yet Ashur and
Nineveh cannot have formed part of this empire for long because at the end of
Hammurabi's reign mention is made again of wars against Subartu--that is, Assyria.
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