Mardaman
Mardaman was a major city in northern Mesopotamia . So far it is only known from sources; it already existed in 2250 BC. And existed until about 1200 BC. Translations of cuneiform tablets suggest that it may have been where the Bassetki statue was found .
In summer 2017, archaeologists from the Institute for the Cultures of the Ancient Orient at the University of Tübingen unearthed 92 clay tablets in the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq . Temporally they were around 1250 BC. BC and thus come from the period of the Central Assyrian Empire . The ancient orientalist Betina Faist translated the texts and identified the city as Mardama. From the texts it can also be seen that it was a governor's seat.
By Old Babylonian v sources by 1800. A city called Mardaman has been known for a long time in BC, and it should be identical to the city mentioned here. Accordingly, it was one of the royal cities that Šamši-Adad I founded in 1786 BC. Was conquered and a few years later became an independent kingdom again. The city was then taken over by the Turukkans around 1768 BC. Chr. Destroyed. The cuneiform texts show that this did not come to an end, but that the city continued until around 1200 BC. Continued to exist.
In older sources from the Third Dynasty of Ur , approx. 2100–2000 BC BC, the city of Mardaman is already mentioned. Accordingly, it was already from Naram-Sin around 2250 BC. Destroyed for the first time.
Web links
- Archeology online
- Peter Pfälzner , Betina Faist : A History of the City of Mardama (n) , dubsar Volume 17, pp. 347–391, Münster 2020 ISBN 978-3-96327-102-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Cuneiform discovery reveals Assyrian royal city, accessed on March 10, 2019