Gidara
Gidara ( Western Semitic for wall, Aramaic Raqamatu ) was an ancient city and the center of an Aramaic minor kingdom on the upper reaches of the Chabur, southwest of Mardin and north of Guzana . Under the reign of the Assyrian King Tiglatpeleser II (966–935 BC) Assyria lost the city to the Aramaic Arumu . Nevertheless, there was probably a dependency on Assyria. The city's population was both Aramaic and Assyrian.
The last king of the Aramaeans named in Assyrian sources Temanites was Muquru , whose rule began with his capture and the conquest of the heavily fortified city in 898 BC. By the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II. (911–891 BC). Muquru's palace was looted and he and his brothers were deported to Assur in bronze shackles .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael P. Streck, Bruno Meissner (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, Volume 1, ISBN 3-11-004451-X , p. 133; and Edward Lipiński: The Aramaeans. Their ancient history, culture, religion . Verlag Peeters, Leuven 2000, ISBN 90-429-0859-9 , pp. 114f.
- ^ Edward Lipiński : The Aramaeans. Their ancient history, culture, religion . Verlag Peeters, Leuven 2000, ISBN 90-429-0859-9 , p. 109.
- ↑ Michael P. Streck, Bruno Meissner (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, Volume 1, ISBN 3-11-004451-X , pp. 30 and 135 and 295; and Elena Cassin (ed.): Fischer Weltgeschichte . Volume 4: The ancient oriental empires. The first half of the 1st millennium . Verlag Fischer, Frankfurt 1967, p. 13.
literature
- 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. 256 ( excerpt (Google) )