Thanks to important chronological lists of colophon-dates and to a number of trade-documents from Tel-Sifr, Sippara, and elsewhere, which are inscribed with the same dates in a fuller form, the outline of the history of the reign of Ḫammurabi is fairly well known, though it can hardly be said that we have what would be at the present time regarded as an important event for each year, notwithstanding that they may have been to the ancient Babylonians of all-absorbing interest. The following is a list of the principal dates of his reign, as far as they can at present be made out— 1 Year of Ḫammurabi the king. 2 Year he performed justice in the land. 3 Year he constructed the throne of the exalted shrine of Nannar of Babylon. 4 Year he built the fortification of Malgia. 5 Year he constructed the ... of the god. 6 Year of the fortification of (the goddess) Laz. 7 Year of the fortification of Isinna. 8 Year of the ... of Emutbālum. 9 Year of the canal Ḫammurabi-ḫêgalla. 10 Year of the soldiers and people of Malgia. 11 Year of the cities Rabiqa and Šalibi. 12 Year of the throne of Zēr-panîtum. 13 Year (the city) Umu (?) set up a king in great rejoicing.(43) 14 Year of the throne of Ištar of Babylon. 15 Year of his 7 images.(44) 16 Year of the throne of Nebo. 17 Year of the images of Ištar and Addu (Hadad).... 18 Year of the exalted shrine for Ellila. 19 Year of the fortification Igi-ḫur-sagga. 20 Year of the throne of Merri (Rimmon or Hadad). 21 Year of the fortification of Baṣu. 22 Year of the image of Ḫammurabi king of righteousness. 23 Year of the ... of Sippar. 24 Year of the ... for Ellila. 25 Year of the fortification of Sippar. 26 Year a great flood (?).... 27 Year the supreme (?).... 28 Year of the temple of abundance.(45) 29 Year of the image of Šala (spouse of Rimmon or Hadad). 30 Year the army of Elam.... 31 Year of the land Emutbālu. 32 Year the army of.... 33 Year of the canal _Ḫammurabi-nuḫuš-niši_. 34 Year of Ištar and Nanaa. 35 Year of the fortification of.... 36 Lost. 37 Practically lost. 38 Year the great.... 39 Practically lost. 40 Lost. 41 Lost. 42 Practically lost. 43 Year dust (? ruin) overwhelmed Sippar and the city Ul-Šamaš. In the gaps indicated by the words “lost,” and “practically lost,” the following entries ought, perhaps, to be inserted, though it is to be noted that some of them may be merely additions to, or other forms of, dates preserved by the list— “Year he (_i.e._ the king) built the supreme shrine of Bêl.” [? the eighteenth year.] “Year of the ... of the fortification of Sippar.” [? the 25th year.] “Year he made supplication to the goddess Taš-mêtu.” “Year of the river (canal) Tišida-Ellilla” (p. 182). “Year the soldiers of Ešnunna were smitten by the sword.”