Zahiran

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Zahiran also known as Sahiri or Sa-hi-ri, [1] also known as Zahiran [2] was an Iron Age city of the ancient near east. [3] It was a city in what is today Syria.

During the Mari–Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between Igrish-Halam King of Ebla, [4] [5] [6] [7] and Iblul-il, King of Mari. [8] [9] About a decade later, it would be absorbed into the empire of Sargon of Akkad.

The town was sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC). The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3, [10] states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu [ broken anchor ] the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively, and abducted their gods." [11] [12]

References

  1. ↑ Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Eisenbrauns, 1975 ) p91.
  2. ↑ Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Gary Rendsburg, Nathan H. Winter, Eblaitica (Eisenbrauns, 1987 ) p260.
  3. ↑ Fr. Joseph Ponessa, Laurie Manhardt, Sharon Doran, Come and See: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2014 )
  4. ↑ Dolce, Rita (2008). "Ebla before the Achievement of Palace G Culture: An Evaluation of the Early Syrian Archaic Period". In Kühne, Hartmut; Czichon, Rainer Maria; Kreppner, Florian Janoscha. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 29 March - 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin. 2. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN   978-3-447-05757-8. p68.
  5. ↑ Michalowski, Piotr (1995). Van Lerberghe, Karel; Schoors, Antoon, eds. Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. 65. Peeters Publishers & Department of Oriental Studies, Leuven. ISBN   978-90-6831-727-5. ISSN 0777-978X p462.
  6. ↑ Roux G, Ancient Iraq. (Penguin UK, 1992) p.200.
  7. ↑ Feliu L., (Brill, 2003) p40.
  8. ↑ Aaron Alexander Burke, The Architecture Of Defense: Fortified Settlements Of The Levant During The Middle Bronze Age (Volume One) 2004. p183.
  9. ↑ Edgar Peltenberg (2007). Euphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC. p. 118.
  10. ↑ Chronicle Concerning the Fall of Nineveh at livis.com.
  11. ↑ A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975)
  12. ↑ Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.
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