Lipit-Ishtar

Lipit-Ishtar was the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin, who died around 1924 BC according to the Sumerian King List. The list names him as the son of Ishme-Dagan and records Ur-Ninurta as his successor. He is remembered chiefly as the ruler in whose name a legal code was written, about a century before the better known Code of Hammurabi, and for the Sumerian hymns composed in his honor, both of which were copied in scribal schools for hundreds of years after his death. The annals of his reign record that he repulsed the Amorites, and his kingdom fell to an attack by Gungunum of neighboring Larsa. For the atlas he stands among the earliest named lawgivers of the cuneiform tradition.