Bit Bahiani

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Bit-Bahiani and other Aramaic principalities in the 10th / 9th centuries Century BC Chr.

Bit-Bahiani was an Aramaic principality with the capital Gosan ( Tell Halaf ) on the upper reaches of the Chabur . In the immediate vicinity was the town of Sikani ( Tell Fecheriye ), which some identify with the old Mitann capital, Waššukanni .

history

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Since when Bit-Bahiani was a vassal state of Assyria cannot be precisely determined. First tribute payments are under Adad-nirari II. From the year 894 BC. BC, who mentions the then King Abi-Salamu . Shortly thereafter, the city-states of Bit-Bahiani and Izalla joined forces to rebel against Assyrian domination. The project seems to have failed, however, since both allied states are again in the tribute lists of Aššur-nasir-pal II. 882 BC. Appear.

In the period that followed, development was calm. It wasn't until 810 BC. The next armed conflict took place when Šammuramat around 810 BC. The entire region was incorporated into the Assyrian Empire. A rebellion of 759 BC Was 758 BC. Dejected. Bit-Bahiani is mentioned for the last time under the governor Bachiannu .

Ruler of Bit-Bahiani

Kings

Governor

  • Mannu-kima-matu-Aššur around 793 BC Chr.
  • Pur sagale around 763 BC Chr.
  • Bel-harran-Bel-uṣur around 727 BC Chr.
  • Mutakkil-Aššur around 706 BC Chr.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ See A. Kirk Grayson: Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC). The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian periods 2. Toronto a. a. 1991, pp. 145–155, here p. 153 (= A.0.99.2, lines 100ff.).

literature

  • Abd el-Mesih Baghdo, Lutz Martin, Mirko Novák, Winfried Orthmann: Excavations on Tell Halaf in northeast Syria. Preliminary report on the first and second excavation campaign , Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06068-4
  • Trevor Bryce: The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire . Routledge 2009, ISBN 9781134159086 , p. 128 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • Paul Collins: From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500 BC . Harvard University Press 2008, ISBN 9780674030961 , p. 125 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • Trevor Bryce: The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford University Press 2012, ISBN 9780199218721 , pp. 46, 164, 211–212 ( excerpt (Google) )

Coordinates: 36 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E