His death allowed Ur-Ninurta to launch a temporary counter-offensive, recapturing Nippur and several other cities on the Kishkattum canal. His year-name “year (Ur-Ninurta) set for Enlil free (of forced labor) for ever the citizens of Nippur and released (the arrears of) the taxes which they were bearing on their necks” may mark this point. His offensive was stopped at Adab, modern Bismaya, where Abī-sarē “defeated the army of Isin with his weapon,” in the 9th year-name of his reign.[19] It may be that this battle was where he was killed, as a year A of Halium of the kingdom of Mananâ,[nb 3] reads “the year Ur-Ninurta was slain” and Manabalte’el of Kisurra’s year G,[nb 4] “the year Ur-Ninurta was killed.”[20]