Bit Ḫamban or bit habban ( Akkadian bit Ḫamban , Babylonian bit habban ) was a little kassitisches kingdom in ancient times , which in the border area of the present states of Iran and Iraq existed. The name is derived from the Kassite tribe of the same name, the Chambaner / Chabbaner .
It is first mentioned in 1157 BC. Mentioned. After the fall of the Kassite dynasty, Bīt-Ḫamban was under Babylonian control. In the 1st millennium BC Chr. Is Assyria attention to this region, making it the latest under Shalmaneser III. tribute. The Chambaner Janzu takes over 842 BC. The kingdom in neighboring Namri , after the local ruler was overthrown shortly before.
Tiglat-Pileser III. finally incorporated Bīt-Ḫamban as a province into the Assyrian Empire. Under Sargon II , 715 BC follow. Uprising by sections of the population, which is then exiled to other parts of the country .
In the reports of Asarhaddon and Assurbanipal , Bīt-Ḫamban is mentioned even more often before the name disappears from the records after the defeat of Assyria and the destruction of Nineveh and Ḫarran .
literature
Dietz-Otto Edzard: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology (RLA) - Volume 9 -. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, pp. 91-92, ISBN 3-11-017296-8
