Karalla

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Karalla was an Iron Age kingdom in the Zagros . It was in the neighborhood of Allabria and Ellipi and was mostly a vassal of Assyria in New Assyrian times . It also served as a buffer against the nomadic Medes , who had a tribal structure under several chiefs ( bēl āli ). Levine locates it on Lake Zeribor .

Sargon moved 716, in his 6th palu against Karalla. The country is being destroyed, the king battered . "The destroyer of the land of Karalla, who made the skin of the head of the city turn red like an illuru plant", describes the Moussaieff fragment of the Assyrian king. In 713 Karalla is made an Assyrian province . In 706, however, another campaign against Karalla is reported, so the country was not completely pacified.

Ruler

  • Assurli'u in Sargon's time
  • A-mi-taš-ši, 713
  • At-ka-A + [A] -x, son of Amitaši
  • At-ka-aa-DUG, son of Amitaši

literature

  • Stuart C. Brown, Media and secondary state formation in the Neo-Assyrian Zagros: an anthropological approach to an Assyriological problem. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 38/1, 1986, 107-119.
  • W. Röllig 1976-80. "Karalla" RIA 5, 405b.
  • Ran Zadok, The Ethno-Linguistic character of Northwestern Iran and Kurdistan in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Iran 40, 2002, 89-151.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Levine 1977, Sargon's eighth campaign. In: TC Young / LD Levine (eds.), Mountains and Lowlands: Essays in the Archeology of Greater Mesopotamia, Malibu 1977, 137
  2. ^ Hayim Tadmor, The Campaigns of Sargon II of Assur: A chronological-historical Study. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12/3, 1958, 96
  3. ^ Kathleen Abraham / Jacob Klein, A new Sargon II Cylinder Fragment from an unknown Provenance. Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology 9/2, 2007, 255
  4. ^ Hayim Tadmor, The Campaigns of Sargon II of Assur: A chronological-historical Study. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12/3, 1958, 97