ABSTRACT
To consolidate his authority over this realm, Samsi-Addu established viceregal centres at Mari, where he appointed his son Yasmah-Addu as viceroy, and in the city Ekallatum, which had served as his rst capital and his base for his conquests. In Ekallatum he appointed his son Ishme-Dagan to the viceregal seat. e king himself took up residence in his newly established capital ShubatEnlil (formerly Shehna, modern Tell Leilan). Commercial considerations no doubt provided one of the incentives for his military campaigns, for these campaigns gave him control over all the major trade-routes linking Ashur with Syria and eastern and central Anatolia. But though SamsiAddu’s kingdom ourished under his sovereignty, it rapidly began to disintegrate aer his death c. 1775, surviving only for a dozen years before it fell to the Babylonian Hammurabi c. 1763.
