Mari Eponym Chronicle

Mari Eponym Chronicles are the oldest assyrian eponym chronicles compiled at Mari in the 18th century BC, covering the years before and during the reign of Shamshi-Adad I.The chronicles are important sources for the chronology of the Ancient Near East, which list at least one notable event per year under the name of a ruling official.The chronicles are extant in eleven fragments excavated at the Royal Palace of Mari and was first edited by M. Birot in 1985.
Michel proposed the identification of a solar eclipse mentioned in the Mari Eponym Chronicle as occurring on 24 June 1833 BC.
According to Werner Nahm, this would date the beginning of the reign of Hammurabi to 1784 BC.