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Unfortunately the flood gates had opened.

A few years later a pretender calling himself Iluma-ilu and claiming descent from the last king of Isin raised another pan-Sumerian revolt.

Samsu-iluna marched an army to Sumer and the two met in a battle which proved indecisive ; a second battle sometime later went Iluma-ilu's way and in its aftermath he founded the which would remain in control of Sumer for the next 300 years.

Samsu-iluna seems to have taken a defensive approach after this, in the 18th year of his reign he saw to the rebuilding of 6 fortresses in the vicinity of which might have been intended to keep that city under Bablyonian control.

Ultimately this proved fruitless, by the time of Samsu-iluna's death Nippur recognized Iluma-ilu as