Ashlakka
Aschlakka was a small town and a small city-state of the same name in the first half of the second millennium BC. The exact location is not certain. The place is best known from cuneiform texts from Mari , according to which the city is to be located north of Mari am Chabur . Letters from Mari from the time of King Zimri-Lim (around 1750 BC) document the history of the city from this period particularly well. At the beginning of the reign of Zimri-Lim, a king named Shachdum-Adal ruled here, who acted against the interests of Zimri-Lim, whereupon the latter sent an army to Ashlakka, deposed Shachdum-Adal and a certain Ibal-Addu on the throne sat. Ibal-Addu married Inib-Sharri , a daughter of Zimri-Lim. In the following years Ibal-Addu acted little loyal, whereupon Zimri-Lim again sent an army to Ashlakka and sacked the city and deposed Ibal-Addu.
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam E. Miglio: Tribe and State, The Dynamics of Internation Politics and the Reign of Zimri-Lim , Piscataway 2014, ISBN 978-1-4632-0249-1 , p. 128
- ^ Miglio: Tribe and State , p. 130
- ^ Miglio: Tribe and State , p. 138