Tikunani
The city of Tikunani also Tigunanu is mentioned in an Akkadian letter from the great king Ḫattušili I to Tunip-Teššub / Tunija of Tikunani. The location of the city is unknown, but it must have been in the neighborhood of Ḫaḫḫu , against which the great king was at war. He urges his allies to remain true to his alliance with the Hittites, not to listen to the words of his enemy, to devour the grain rations of Ḫaḫḫu and to steal his cattle ("Every ox you take away will be your own, every sheep and every goat you take away will be your own! ") and then attack the city from both sides. At the end he orders Tunip-Teššub to send him the iron that the great king had brought from Niḫrija .
Salvini assumes that Tikunani was a Hurrian- Akkadian state in northern Mesopotamia, which later became part of the Mittani Empire.
In a clay prism from the end of the Old Babylonian period, from a robbery excavation, 438 Ḫabiru are listed who work for Tunip-Teššub.
literature
- Marie-Henriette Gates: Archeology in Turkey . In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 100/2, 1996, pp. 277-335.
- Mirjo Salvini: The Ḫabiru Prism of King Tunip-Teššup of Tikunani . Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome 1996.
- Mirjo Salvini: Una lettera di Hattušili I relativa alla spedizione contro Ḫaḫḫu . In: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici . Vol. 34, 1994, pp. 61-80.
- Thomas Richter: Notes on the Hurrian personal names of the ḫapiru prism from Tigunanu . In: David J. Owen, Gernot Wilhelm (Ed.): General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi . CDL Press, Bethesda 1998 ( Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians . Vol. 9), pp. 125-134.
Individual evidence
- ↑ He is only called Labarna , but the identification appears clear, cf. Billie Jean Collins: Hattušili I, The Lion King . In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies . Vol. 50, 1998, p. 16.