Ellipi

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Ellipi (Iraq)
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Ellipi was a kingdom in the Zagros Mountains, in what is now Iran. It is almost exclusively from Assyrian sources from the 9th to 7th centuries BC. Known. The population of Ellipi appears to have been mostly ranchers, perhaps related to the Elamites and Lulubi .

If the Assyrian representations are to be believed, some of them lived in fortified cities. It is mentioned several times that they had to pay tributes.

Daltâ of Ellipi was subdued by Sargon in the course of his 6th campaign in 716. After that he was "an obedient slave who carried my yoke" (Nimrud prism, fragment E). In 713 five of his provinces rebelled against Dalta, refused to pay tribute to the Assyrians and drove the king out. Sargon, or his generals, because in this year the king stayed in Assyria according to the eponymous chronicle - threw down these provinces in his 9th campaign ("as with a net") and conquered the fortified city of Ḫubaḫna, its center, and 25 cities . He made 33,600 prisoners and captured 600 mules and donkeys. Daltâ died in 708.

In the 7th century Ellipi disappears from the springs, it may have been overrun by the Cimmerians .

Ruler

  • Daltâ at the time of Sargon
  • Isparaba, son of Dalta

Cities

  • Ḫubaḫna (conquered by the Assyrians in 713)
  • Marubišti (conquered by the Assyrians in 708)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cyril John Gadd, Inscribed Prisms of Sargon II from Nimrud. Iraq 16/2, 1954), 200
  2. ^ Hayim Tadmor, The Campaigns of Sargon II of Assur: A chronological-historical Study. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12/3, 1958, 96