Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Text-figures
- Preface
- CHAPTER I NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AND SYRIA
- CHAPTER II EGYPT: FROM THE DEATH OF AMMENEMES III TO SEQENENRE II
- CHAPTER III PALESTINE IN THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V HAMMURABI AND THE END OF HIS DYNASTY
- CHAPTER VI ANATOLIA c. 1750–1600 B.C.
- CHAPTER VII PERSIA c. 1800–1550 B.C.
- CHAPTER VIII EGYPT: FROM THE EXPULSION OF THE HYKSOS TO AMENOPHIS I
- CHAPTER IX EGYPT: INTERNAL AFFAIRS FROM TUTHMOSIS I TO THE DEATH OF AMENOPHIS III
- CHAPTER X SYRIA c. 1550–1400 B.C.
- CHAPTER XI PALESTINE IN THE TIME OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
- CHAPTER XII THE ZENITH OF MINOAN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XIII THE LINEAR SCRIPTS AND THE TABLETS AS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
- CHAPTER XIV THE RISE OF MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XV ANATOLIA c. 1600–1380 b.c.
- CHAPTER XVI THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C. ON THE PERSIAN PLATEAU
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Chronological Tables
- Index to Maps
- General Index
- Map 1: Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middle Bronze Age.
- Map 3: Babylonia and Western Persia.
- Fig. 7. Plan of the Palace at Cnossus.
- Map 6: Ancient Asia Minor and Northern mesopotamia
- References
CHAPTER I - NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AND SYRIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
By
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Text-figures
- Preface
- CHAPTER I NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA AND SYRIA
- CHAPTER II EGYPT: FROM THE DEATH OF AMMENEMES III TO SEQENENRE II
- CHAPTER III PALESTINE IN THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V HAMMURABI AND THE END OF HIS DYNASTY
- CHAPTER VI ANATOLIA c. 1750–1600 B.C.
- CHAPTER VII PERSIA c. 1800–1550 B.C.
- CHAPTER VIII EGYPT: FROM THE EXPULSION OF THE HYKSOS TO AMENOPHIS I
- CHAPTER IX EGYPT: INTERNAL AFFAIRS FROM TUTHMOSIS I TO THE DEATH OF AMENOPHIS III
- CHAPTER X SYRIA c. 1550–1400 B.C.
- CHAPTER XI PALESTINE IN THE TIME OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
- CHAPTER XII THE ZENITH OF MINOAN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XIII THE LINEAR SCRIPTS AND THE TABLETS AS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
- CHAPTER XIV THE RISE OF MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XV ANATOLIA c. 1600–1380 b.c.
- CHAPTER XVI THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C. ON THE PERSIAN PLATEAU
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Chronological Tables
- Index to Maps
- General Index
- Map 1: Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middle Bronze Age.
- Map 3: Babylonia and Western Persia.
- Fig. 7. Plan of the Palace at Cnossus.
- Map 6: Ancient Asia Minor and Northern mesopotamia
- References
Summary
SHAMSHI-ADAD I
Scarcely thirty years ago the figure of Hammurabi, the unifier of Babylonia, still stood out in striking isolation. In fact, at the time he ascended the throne another centralized empire already occupied the whole of northern Mesopotamia: it was the personal creation of Shamshi-Adad I, to whom recent discoveries have made it possible to give his place in history.
Whereas Hammurabi had inherited a considerable territory from his father, Shamshi-Adad had more modest beginnings. He belonged to one of the numerous nomad clans which had infiltrated into Mesopotamia after the break-up of the Third Dynasty of Ur. His father, Ila-kabkabu, ruled over a land bordering on the kingdom of Mari, with which he had come into conflict. It is not well known what happened next. According to one version, the authenticity of which is not certain, Shamshi-Adad made his way into Babylonia, while his brother succeeded to Ila-kabkabu. Later on he seized Ekallatum; the capture of this fortress, on the left bank of the Tigris, in the southern reaches of the lower Zab, laid the gates of Assyria open to him. The moment was propitious, for Assyria had only lately regained her independence, having previously had to submit to Naram-Sin of Eshnunna, who had advanced as far as the upper Khabur. But Naram-Sin's conquests had been ephemeral: on his death, Assyria had shaken off the yoke of Eshnunna, only to fall beneath that of Shamshi-Adad. Once installed on the throne of Ashur, the latter soon set about extending his dominion in the direction of the West.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 1 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973
References
‘Further Observations on the Chronology of Alalakh.’ In Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
146 (1957).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Die Herkunft der Hyksos in neuer Sicht (Berichte der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaft
101/6). Berlin, 1954.Google Scholar
Archives royales de Mari (Archives Royales de Mari (translation vols) texts in transliteration and translation), i–xiii. Paris, 1950–64.
‘Textes économiques de Mari.’ In Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale
47 (1953); 49 (1955); 50 (1956).Google Scholar
‘Šamši-Adad I. und seine Nachfolger.’ In Handbuch der Orientalistik, Erste Abt., Ergänzungsband V, Heft I (Leiden, 1961).Google Scholar
‘Das Problem der ‘apīru (“Ḫabiru”).’ In Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
74 (1958).Google Scholar
Le problème des Ḫabiru á la 4e Rencontre assyriologique internationale (Cahiers de la Société Asiatique, 12). Paris, 1954.Google Scholar
‘Lettres de Numušda-naḫrâri et de trois autres correspondants á Idiniatum.’ In Syria, 41 (1964).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘Les noms d'années et d'éponymes dans les “Archives de Mari”.’ In Studia Mariana (Leiden, 1950).Google Scholar
‘Šamši-Addu Ier, roi d'Assyrie (1726–1694 av. J.-C.).’ In Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, 1948.Google Scholar
‘Une lettre de Iarîm-Lim, roi d'Alep, à Iašûb-Iaḫad, roi de Dîr.’ In Syria, 33 (1956).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘Le royaume d'Alep au XVIIIe siécle avant notre ère d'après les “Archives de Mari”.’ In Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, 1952.Google Scholar
‘Le royaume de Qatna au XVIIIe siècle avant notre ère d'après les “Archives royales de Mari”.’ In Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, 1954.Google Scholar
Hurrians and Subarians (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
22). Chicago, 1944.Google Scholar
‘The Early History of the West Semitic Peoples.’ In Journal of Cuneiform Studies
15 (1961).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘On the Chronology of the Second Millennium B.C.’ In Journal of Cuneiform Studies
11 (1957).Google Scholar
Het ontstaan van het Assyrisch rijk (Mededeelingen van de Koninklijke vlaamse Academic van België, Klasse der Letteren, XXII, 3). Brussels, 1960.Google Scholar
‘The Hurrian Element in the Hittite Empire.’ In Cahiers d'histoire mondiale (See ) 11, 2 (1954).Google Scholar
‘Die Churriter als Problem archäologischer Forschung.’ In Archaeologia Geographica, 7 (1958).Google Scholar
Amorite Personal Names in the Mart Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study.
Baltimore, 1965.Google Scholar
‘Baḫdi-Lim, préfet du palais de Mari.’ In Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, 1954.Google Scholar
‘Un gouvemement provincial dans le royaume de Mari.’ In Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale
41 (1947).Google Scholar
‘Le rôle des nomades dans l'histoire de la Méopotamie an-cienne.’ In Journ. of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 11, 2 (1959).Google Scholar
‘Sutéens et Ḫapiru.’ In Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale
55 (1961). See especially p. n. 2 for recent bibliography on the Habiru.Google Scholar
‘Assyrische Königsliste und “Dunkles Zeitalter”.’ In Journal of Cuneiform Studies
8 (1954).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘The Historical Background of the Correspondence of Baḫdi-Lim.’ In Orientalia
25 (1956).Google Scholar
‘On Some Problems of Kassite and Assyrian Chronology.’ In Annuaire de l'Inst, de Philologie et d'Histoire orientates et slaves, xiii, 1953 (Brussels, 1955).Google Scholar
‘Diplomacy in Western Asia in the Early Second Millennium B.C.’ In Iraq, 18 (1956).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
‘Vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Boǧazköy im Jahre 1957.’ In Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft
91 (1958).Google Scholar
Mission archéologique de Mari, II: Le Palais. 3 parts (Inst. fr. d'Arch. de Beyrouth, Biblioth. arch, et hist.
68–70). Paris, 1958–9.Google Scholar
‘The Hurrian Participation in the Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine.’ In Cahiers d'histoire mondiale (See ) 1, 2 (1953).Google Scholar
‘Iaḫdunlim, roi de H̬ana.’ In Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale
33 (1936).Google Scholar
‘La chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne’ (Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 43, 2). Paris, 1942.Google Scholar
‘Tablettes hurrites provenant de Mari.’ In Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale
36 (1939).Google Scholar
The Alalakh Tablets (Occasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2). London, 1953.Google Scholar
‘Abban and Alalaḫ.’ In Journal of Cuneiform Studies
12 (1958). (amendment in Journal of Cuneiform Studies
13 (1959)).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alalakh. An Account of the Excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay, 1937–1949.
Oxford, 1955.Google Scholar
- 4
- Cited by