Gambulu
 
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Gambulu on the map of Iraq |
Gambulu (also " Door of Elam, water-land ") was an Aramaic region, which the Assyrian King Sargon II established after his conquest of Babylonia as an eastern Babylonian provincial administration in southern Mesopotamia :
“I (Sargon) ... subjugated Marduk-apla-iddina II. , The king of Kaldu, who lived on the bank of the salt water, ... I divided his whole great country in equal parts and gave it into the hands of my officials , the governor of Babylon and Gambulu. "
Gambulu lay between Ur and the Kercha ( Uknu ) river in the immediate vicinity of the eastern border of Elam and bordered in Babylonia to the west on the sea , south to Bit Jakin and north to Puqudu . It belonged to the association of the tribes of Kaldu .
However, the name Gambulu did not refer to the founding prince, but to the landscape. After Sargon's campaign, Gambulu was an Assyrian province on the territory of Assyria. A little later, Sargon II divided Gambulu into six districts: Tarburgati, Ḫubaqanu, Timassunu, Pašur, Ḫiritu and Ḫilmu. The capital of Gambulu bore the name Dur-Athara; Sargon II later called it Dur-Nabu.
Assurbanipal brought booty from Gambulu to Aššur in his third palû (655 BC) in the campaign against Elam : the remaining sons of Bel-iqiša, his relatives and family members, rebellious gangs / bandits ( urbī ), the inhabitants of the country of Gambulu , Cattle, sheep and goats.
Regents of Gambulu
- Bunanu under Esarhaddon
- Bel-iqiša (hometown of Sapibel ), son of Bunanu, under Asarhaddon and Ashurbanipal
- Dunanu, son of Bel-iqiša, under Ashurbanipal
- Sam'gunu, son of Bel-iqiša, under Ashurbanipal
- Nabu-šumi-ereš, under Assurbanipal
- Nabonid, son of Nabu-šumi-ereš, under Ashurbanipal
- Beletir, son of Nabu-šumi-ereš, under Ashurbanipal
- Marduk-šarri-usur, under Nebuchadnezzar II (573 BC)
- Zeria, under Nebuchadnezzar II (569 BC)
literature
- Nadav Naʾaman, Ḫabiru-Like Bands in the Assyrian Empire and Bands in Biblical Historiography. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120/4, 2000, 621-624.
- Eckhard Unger : Gambulu In: Dietz-Otto Edzard : Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie , Vol. 3: Fabel - Gyges and supplement . de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003705-X , pp. 136-137.
Individual evidence
- ↑ s. Nadav Naʾaman, Ḫabiru-Like Bands in the Assyrian Empire and Bands in Biblical Historiography. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120/4, 2000, 621-624 for a discussion of this term