irnina

Updated: July 23, 2025

The king was building a palace at the city of Kâr-Irnina, which was supplied by the Irnina canal, and every year it was possible to put so much work into the building. But one year, when little more than a third of the year's work was done, the building operations were stopped by flood, the canal having overflowed its banks so that the water rose right up to the wall of the town.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery

In these circumstances Hammurabi gave pressing orders that the obstruction was to be removed and the canal made navigable within three days. Damage was often done to the banks of canals by floods which followed the winter rains, and a letter of Abêshu' gives an interesting account of a sudden rise of the water in the Irnina canal so that it overflowed its banks.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery