New light on Šimaški and its rulers

Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie und Vorderasiastische Archaeologie

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-232

  Steinkeller, Piotr ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61249200720     PISSN: 00845299     EISSN: 16131150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ZA.2007.011     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Sin-iddinam in Emar and SU.A = Šimaški, NABU 1996/41.
2. ki means "a man of Susa" or the region of Susiana. Needless to say, this position has no scholarly merit whatsoever.
3. Frayne, RIME 3/2, 301-06 Šu-Sin 3, 308-12 Šu-Sin 5.
4. 4? šu] ti-a. tùmdam, "the booty of Kimaš, Harši [and GN], which came [from] Susa, their four (former) expenditure tablets which were received by Šu-[Enlila?]. are to be brought back" (Sigrist Princeton 60:11-17-Šulgi 48/vii).
5. See Michalowski, JCS 31 (1979) 175 and n. 15
6. ki ù ma-da-bi ud 1-a mu-hul, "year Šulgi. destroyed in one day Kimaš, Hu'urti and their [neighboring] lands")
7. Cf. S. J. Lieberman, JCS 22 (1968/69) 56 n. 28.
8. Iraq 41 (1979) 38-44.
9. ZA 82, 49-50.
10. See also E. Carter/M. W. Stolper, Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology (Berkeley 1984) 20.
11. JAOS 108, 200.
12. Steinkeller, Sale Documents of the Ur III Period. FAOS 17 (Stuttgart 1989) 274-75;
13. K. De Graef, Les noms d'année du roi Simaškéen Ebarat I, Akkadica 125 (2004) 107-08;
14. eadem, Les archives d'Igibuni: Les documents Ur III du chantier B à Suse. MDP 54 (Ghent 2005) 99. 105-06. 112-13.
15. This identification was made first by Stolper, ZA 82, 50. See also Carter/Stolper, Elam 20.
16. Steinkeller, JAOS 108, 200 n. 27. The close association of Idattu with Kindattu, apparent in this example, is now explained by the fact of Idattu being Kindattu's son. See immediately below.
17. For this conclusion, see already Stolper, ZA 72, 50.
18. ki (Nesbit Drehem XVII:15-Amar-Suen 7/viii/2; PDT 1170:12-Amar-Suen 7/viii/7; HUCA 29 [1958] 77 no. 6:3-Amar-Suen 7/viii/16; JCS 57 [2005] 28 no. 5:12-Amar-Suen 8/ix/12; Hilgert Drehern 2 555:3-Amar-Suen 8/ix/13; BIN 3 173:7-Amar-Suen 8/ix/14).
19. 4-ne-šè, "(animals for) the oath of allegiance in the temple of Ninurta, on behalf of the Šimaš kians and the men of Zidahri"
20. (JCS 14 [1960] 111 no. 14:16-17-Šu- Suen 1/ix).
21. B. M. Nasrabadi, Eine Inschrift des Amar-Suena aus Tappeh Bormi (Iran), ZA 95 (2005) 161-71.
22. 4-a. See T. M. Sharlach, Diplomacy and the Rituals of Politics at the Ur III Court, JCS 57 (2005) 18-19.
23. For the location of Marhaši, see Steinkeller, The Question of Marhcombining breve belowaši: A Contribution to the Historical Geography of Iran in the Third Millennium B.C., ZA 72 (1982) 237-65;
24. idem, New Light on Marhaši and its Contacts with Makkan and Babylonia, Journal of Magan Studies 1 (2006) (in press);
25. D. T. Potts, Exit Aratta: Southeastern Iran and the Land of Marhashi, Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 4 (2004) 41-51.
26. As demonstrated by the continuous presence of Marhašean envoys at the court of Ur-from Šulgi 46 through Ibbi-Suen 1 (see P. Michalowski, ZA 95, 73-74;
27. T. M. Sharlach, JCS 57, 24-25), the regular movements of officials between Babylonia and Marhaši, the deployment of Marhašean troops in Babylonia, and the presentation to Ibbi-Suen of a Meluhhan leopard by an unidentified ruler of Marhasi
28. (see Steinkeller, ZA 72, 253 and n. 60;
29. D. T. Potts, Total Prestation in Marhashi-Ur Relations, Iranica Antiqua 37 [2002] 343-57).
30. This new appreciation of Ebarat I and his political importance forces us seriously to consider that the royal seal published by W. G. Lambert, Iraq 41 (1979) 15-17 no. 42 and pl. V no. 42 (photograph) (for a superior photograph)
31. dIà-a-ba-ra-at in one of the Susa tablets with Ebarat I's year formulae (MDP 23 292) shows that Ebarat I achieved deification already during his lifetime. Unfortunately, the name of Ebarat's wife is not preserved. Still, given Ebarat's close and long-lasting ties with the House of Ur, a possibility that she was a Sumerian princess might be considered. As we have seen earlier (see above n. 47), at least two times during Ebarat's tenure Sumerian princesses traveled to Anšan, in the years Šulgi 44 and Šu-Suen 5, respectively. Tantalizingly, it was in Šulgi 44 that Ebarat supplied his GÚ.URU×GU-and possibly even traveled to Babylonia at that time. Is it possible, then, that he (or alternatively his Anšanite companion Hundah(i)šer) had also collected a bride on that occasion?