Next to Babylon, he was much concerned with making improvements in Sippar.

The Temple of Shamash at Larsa also was improved and enlarged by him.

Hammurabi's example is followed by his successors.

Agumkakrimi invokes Shamash as 'warrior of heaven and earth'; and it is likely that the precedent furnished by these two kings, who considered it consistent with devotion to Marduk to single out the places sacred to Shamash for special consideration, had much to do in maintaining the popularity of sun-worship in Babylonia and Assyria.

Kara-indash, of the Cassite dynasty (_c._ 1450 B.C.), restores the temple of Shamash at Larsa, and Mili-shikhu, two centuries later, assigns to Shamash the second place in his pantheon, naming him before Marduk.