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Shalmaneser's Campaign to Urarṭu in 856 B.C. and the Historical Geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian Sources*

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H. F. Russell
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The highlands of Eastern Anatolia cannot have seemed to be a particularly attractive or accessible area to the Assyrians. The E. Taurus—the range of mountains separating the plain of Upper Mesopotamia from the highlands to the north—was rarely breached by the Assyrians: in the Middle-Assyrian period, Tiglath-pileser I claims that he went to the Nairi lands (then around Lake Van) three times; Shalmaneser III penetrated E. Anatolia through the E. Taurus in his 3rd, 7th and 15th palûs, and from N.W. Iran in his accession year and 30th and 31st palûs. Thereafter, the region lay in the hands of the Urartians and, except for the raid on Ṭurušpa carried out by Tiglath-pileser III pursuing the remnants of the army of Sarduri II after the defeat of the anti-Assyrian coalition in Kummuh in 743, was never penetrated by the Assyrian army again.

Shalmaneser's campaign of 856 began with the completion of the conquest of the Aramaean state of Bit-Adini, lying on the Euphrates to the south of Carchemish. After leaving Bit-Adini, Shalmaneser made his way to Bit-Zamani, the Diyarbakır area, and thence began his long campaign through Eastern Anatolia to Western Iran and back to Assyria.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 34 , December 1984 , pp. 171 - 201
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1984

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25 Burney, Despite, Peoples of the Hills, 130–2Google Scholar, the inscriptions of Sarduri I (HChI, no. 1 a–c) do not in the least indicate that Sarduri was founding any city, let alone Ṭurušpa, at Van Kale. The inscription reads, after the titulary:

(I.d)sar 5(RI)-BÀD A (I)lu-ti-ip-ri DU11.DU11-ub ma-a ana-ku pu-la-ni an-nu-te TA ŠA-bi (URU)al-ni-ú-nu na-ṣa-ku ana-ku BÀD an-ni-ú ar-ti-ṣi-ip

The wall referred to is often thought to be a quay wall.

26 RGTC 2, 217Google Scholar; RGTC 3, 247Google Scholar; Fraenkel, , RE II, 407Google Scholar.

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28 Collation by Lambert, W. G., AnSt 11 (1961), 154–5 and n. 8Google Scholar.

29 Kurkh Monolith, i 29, ii 14, ii 78; Cameron Annals, ii 3.

30 Langdon, S., Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars (1935), 21Google Scholar n. 1 refers to a festival of Ištar of Arbail mentioned in the inscriptions of Aššurbanipal. This was in the month of Ab, far too early in the year to be of any relevance.

31 Much evidence has been collected by Davies, G. I., PEQ 111 (1979), 92ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Mayer, , MDOG 112, 20–1Google Scholar and Kühne, H., BaghM 11 (1980), 49 ffGoogle Scholar.

32 Black Obelisk 143 reads: a-na É (KUR)za-ma-a-ni it-ta-rad ina ni-ri-be šá (URU)am-maš(−)TU(−)BI (ÍD)ar-za-ni-a e-bir “He went down to Bit-Zamani. He crossed the Euphrates in the pass of Ammaštubi.” Or “He went down to Bit Zamani. He entered (KU4-ub!) the pass of Ammaš. He crossed the Euphrates.” The reading of the name Ammaš seems to have originated with Hommel, Geschichte, 600. It was taken up by Ebeling, , RlA I, 96Google Scholar; and by Olmstead, , JAOS 41 (1921), 378Google Scholar and n. 71. See also Michel, , WO 2 (1956) 225Google Scholar, n. 17.

33 The confusion concerning the source of the Tigris in classical and Armenian sources is well explained by Dilleman, L., Haute Mésopotamie (1962), 40–7Google Scholar.

34 KGF, 144.

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39 Provinzeinteilung, 29.

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45 RlA 5, 214Google Scholar. The most interesting reference to Henzuta is in the Midas of Pahhuwa treaty (KUB XXIII 72 vs. 33, CTH 146) where Henzuta occurs in the list of people to whom the document is addressed. This evidence does not allow us to locate Henzuta nor ensure that it is Alzi, Enzi or Enzite.

46 Other recent opinions include: Burney, , AnSt 16 (1966), 60Google Scholar (Enzi = plain of Elâzığ); Michel, , WO 1/6 (1952), 461Google Scholar n. 33 (Enzi = Enzite = Alzi); Salvini, , La Parola del Passato 27, 106Google Scholar (Enzite = region of Harput); Lewy, , Or NS 21 (1952), 396Google Scholar; Kessler, , Untersuchungen, 167Google Scholar (Alzi = Enzite, south of Murad Nehri, near Diyarbakır).

47 See Berkooz, M., The Nuzi Dialect of Akkadian (1937), 57–60Google Scholar, von Soden, , Or NS 25 (1956), 241–3Google Scholar; Hecker, K., Grammatik der Kültepe-Texte (An Or 44, 1968), §33aGoogle Scholar; von Soden, , GAG, §34bGoogle Scholar and Erg., §33i; and for Hurrian, , Laroche, , RHA 34 (1976), 25Google Scholar. The same phenomenon is found in the Kassite PN Kunindu/Kulindu (UET 7, no. 20), as pointed out by O. R. Gurney is his recent edition of these texts. I am indebted to Prof. Gurney for help with these references.

48 Reading (44) ina (URU)sa-lu-ri-a KI.TA ina qaq-qi-ri e-qi ú-še-ziz, after Schramm, W., EAK II, 72Google Scholar.

49 The implications of this last sentence are not clear; it may mean that these people became Hittite subjects, although living in their own lands.

50 Or “fortress of Kutmar”, and below, or “fortress of Suta”.

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57 Quoted from HChI, no. 23, see also corrigenda p. 167.

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63 Aššurnaṣirpal, Annals i 46–51; the location of Kirruri is discussed below, p. 198.

64 Prism Inscription, iv 71.

65 Tablet A, 25–6 (Weidner, AfO 18, 360Google Scholar); Tablet B, 9–11 (AfO 18, 343Google Scholar); Tablet C, 15–7 (AfO 18, 349Google Scholar); Yoncalı inscription, 4–6 (Lehmann-Haupt, Materialien, no. 6).

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69 25th Congress, 303.

70 Iraq 24, 104–5Google Scholar; Tiglath-pileser I, Prism Inscription, iv 12.

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72 Salvini, , NU, 55–6Google Scholar.

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77 AnSt 16, 60Google Scholar; People of the Hills, 130.

78 Belck's, suggestion (ZfE (Verhandlungen) 1893, 71Google Scholar) that the name Adduri survived in the village-name Akuri or Agguri on the north side of Mt. Ararat was accepted by Streck, (ZA 14, 111Google Scholar), Billerbeck, (BA 6, 40Google Scholar) and Olmstead, (JAOS 41, 360 n. 32Google Scholar). This is unconvincing. Belck and Lehmann suggested that Eritia may be Süphan Dağ, on the north shore of Lake Van, (ZA 9, 350–1Google Scholar n. 1); Olmstead that it was to be located at “Ereshat” (Irşat) north of Erciş, (JAOS 41, 360 n. 32)Google Scholar.

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83 Tablet C, 6–7 (AfO 18, 349Google Scholar); Basalt Slab, 1–4 (AfO 18, 357Google Scholar); with the Great Sea of Amurru and the Upper Sea of Amurru (i.e. the Mediterranean).

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87 Annals, 12 (Weidner, , AfO 6 (1930–1931), 80–1Google Scholar).

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89 Prism inscription, iv 43 duplicates, in addition to the main text's A.AB.BA e-li-[ni-] te, add ša ša-la-mu (d)šam-še.

90 Prism Inscription, vi 43–4.

91 Tiglath-pileser III: Mila Mergi inscription, 15 (Postgate, , Sumer 29 (1973), 51–2Google Scholar); Nimrud Tablet 1, 3–4 (TP, pls. XXXV–VIII); Nimrud Tablet 2, 3–4 (TP, pl. XXXIV and Wiseman, , Iraq 26 (1964), 119–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar). Sennacherib: BM 103,000, i 14–7 (CT 26, 1–37Google Scholar); Annalistic Bull inscription, 3 (3 R 12–3); Chicago Prism, i 13–5 (Sennacherib, 163 ff.); Walters Art Gallery inscription, obv. 6–8 (Grayson, AfO 20 (1963), 88–9Google Scholar). Aššurbanipal: Ištar Temple inscription, 78 (Thompson, , LAAA 20 (1933), 93)Google Scholar.

92 Kurkh Monolith, ii 6.

93 Tukulti-Ninurta I: “New Palace” inscription 2, 4–9 (ITN no. 5): Shalmaneser III, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Aššurbanipal: see n. 88.

94 Annals, 15 (TP, pl. XI); Nimrud Slab 1, 6 (TP, pls. XXXII–III); Nimrud Tablet 2, 9 (see note 91).

95 Nimrud slab 2, 9 (TP, pls. XXIX–XXXI); Nimrud Tablet 2, 9 (see note 91).

96 Tiglath-pileser III, Sennacherib and Aššurbanipal: see n. 91.

97 AHw, elû II, 4; CAD, elû B, b; AHw, šaplû, 8.

98 Cameron Annals, iv 26–36; Bull inscription, 24–40 (see note 80); Kurba'il Statue, 11–2 (Wilson, Kinnier, Iraq 24, 93–5Google Scholar).

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101 Himua is frequently associated with the Himuwa, or perhaps with one of the Himuwa's of the Boğazköy texts, following Melikišvili, 25th Congress, 303 (e.g. also Salvini, , NU, 29Google Scholar, with other references). The evidence of the Boğazköy texts is vague and really not very helpful. The most decisive indication of an eastern Himuwa is the BĒLMADGALTI text (CTH 261: IA; von Schuler, E., Hethitische Dienstanweisungen (1957), 48Google Scholar).

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