Namri

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Provinces

Namri ( Sumerian KUR.ZALAG , altakkadisch Namar ^AI , spätakkadisch Namar-in , mittelbabylonisch ^KUR Namar / ^KUR Namri ) was a copper , bronze and Iron Age kingdom. It was east of the Diyala in today's Hanikin area and bordered on Kermanshah in the northwestern Zagros Mountains .

history

First mentions

In the place name lists of Ebla in the 3rd millennium BC The region of Namar ^{KI is} mentioned. The population in Namri was later formed by the Kassites . However, it is not clear whether the Kassites were at home in Namri before the establishment of their own Babylonian dynasty or whether they immigrated later.

It is not known whether Namri came into other relationships of dependency after the destruction of Eblas. At least the kingdom was mentioned in the inscriptions of the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttaš , but later came under Assyrian control. Namri was politically close to Babylon and often tried to shake off Assyrian domination with the support of Babylon.

Assyrian vassal

Namri paid Shalmaneser III. after the campaign of his general ( rab-reši ) Dajan-Aššur 843 BC Against Zamua tribute.

835 BC Chr. The rebellion of Namri is reported, which Dajjan Assur can overthrow.

See also

• Bit Hamban
• Tupliaš

literature

• Helena Cassin: Babylonia under the Kassites and the Middle Assyrian Empire (Fischer Weltgeschichte, Vol. 3; Ancient Orient; Vol. 2). Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-596-60003-0 .
• Dietz-Otto Edzard : Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 9 (RLA). de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, pp. 91-92, ISBN 3-11-017296-8 .
• Julian Reade: Iran in the Neo-Assyrian Period . In: Mario Liverani (Ed.): Neo-Assyrian Geography (Geografi di Geografia Storica; Vol. 5). La Sapienza, Rome 1995, pp. 31-42.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Dietz-Otto Edzard: RLA - Volume 9 - , de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p. 91.