Zakkur

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Zakkur (also Zakkur of Hamath ) was a king of the city-states Hamath and Lu'aš , who lived around 785 BC. Ruled. He is considered a usurper who replaced the older Hittite dynasty .

The inscription Zakkurs

The Zakkur stele

Find history

The inscription Zakkurs, written in Old Aramaic, was found in 1905 by Henri Pognon about 45 km southwest of Aleppo near Tell Afis. The contents of the inscription were first published by Pognon in 1907. Only four fragments of the stele that are now in the Louvre have survived. 17 lines can be read in the lower part of the front, 28 lines on the left and two lines on the right. Originally the stele must have been around 2 m high and 27 to 30 cm wide.

content

“The stele that Zakkur, the king of Hamat and Lu'aš, set up for Iluwer ... Be'elšemayn called me king over Hazrak (in Lu'aš) ... But Bir-Hadad III. , the son of Hazael , king of Aram , united 17 kings against me: Bir-Hadad III., the king Bir-Guš of Arpad , the king of Qu'e , the king of Amq , the king of Gurgum , the king of Ja'udi , the king of Melid , who [... destroys the rest] ... And they erected a wall, higher than the wall of Hazrak ... Be'elšemayn said to me: "I will stand by you and free you from all these kings" ... And I built temples of gods all over the country ... Whoever removed this stele, [...] Be'elšemayn, Ilu-Wer and [...] Šamaš and Sahar [...] and the gods of heaven, [...] may the name of Zakkur and his House [stay forever]. "

- Excerpts from the inscription of King Zakkur

literature

  • Wilhelmus C. Delsmann: The inscription of King Zakkur von Hamath. In: Otto Kaiser : Texts from the environment of the Old Testament . Vol. 1: Legal and economic documents, volume 6. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, ISBN 3-579-00065-9 , pp. 626–628.
  • Henri Pognon: Inscriptions sémitiques de la Syrie, de la Mésopotamie et de la region de Mossoul. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1907.

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predecessor Office successor
Uratami King of Hamath
approx. 800 BC Chr. 		Azrijau
personal data
SURNAME Zakkur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zakkur from Hamath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Hama and Luasch (around 785 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC Chr.