Dadusha

Dadusha (Dāduša) (reigned c. 1800–1779 BC) was one of the kings of the central Mesopotamian city Eshnunna, located in the Diyala Valley.

[1] Ipiq-Adad II extended the control of Eshnunna to incorporate other cities in the Diyala Valley, including Nerebtum, Shaduppum, and Dur-Rimush.

[1] In 1781 BC, Dadusha joined forces with the king of Upper Mesopotamia, Shamshi-Adad I, in order to subdue the area between the two Zab Rivers.

The stele was found accidentally in 1983 while digging out a well in the outskirts of the ancient Eshnunna (modern-day Tell Asmar) in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.

The upper register (the image of heroism) shows Dadusha (left) in a position of a slayer, tending on the defeated and slain King of Qabrā, Bunu-Ishtar.

In ten days I seized this city by means of a surrounding siege wall, by heaping up earth, with the help of a breach, an attack and my great strength.

[8][9] Two tablets found during excavations at the site Shaduppum (modern Tell Harmal) in 1945 and 1947 contain laws similar to the Code of Hammurabi, but predating them.