Kingdom of Khana

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The Kingdom of Ḫana (KUR ḫa-ni-i "Land of Ḫana"; Khana) was the Syrian kingdom from Hana Land in the middle Euphrates region north of

First Babylonian Dynasty. A newer view is that only the initial six rulers lived during that time and that after an interregnum, Khana re-emerged in the Middle Babylonian period under the last six kings.[2] The Low Chronology dating scheme for Hana has gained much support.[3] The kingdom was located in the middle Euphrates close to the junction of Khabur River. Its capital was the town of Terqa or possibly Saggarâtum
.

Location

The kingdom of Hana was located on territories formerly ruled by the sovereigns of Mari. The rulers of Mari held the title "King of

Asharah.[5]

History

The Hanaeans

The Hanaeans were a nomadic tribal confederacy based around the middle Euphrates on the Syrian-Iraqi border.

Habiru, originally coming from the deserts of Syria. The contact with the settled population leads to gradual transformation of the population into more settled rural communities.[4]

The history of the Hanaeans is closely linked to the kingdom of Mari. They were strongly presented in the Euphrates and Khabur valleys. Records indicate that the area around Terqa could muster several thousand in times of need.

Iakhdunlim. Within the armed forces of Mari they were grouped by clans of which about ten are known.[4]

Middle Bronze

Mari period

An independent kingdom under the leadership of Mari, the kingdom fell to the Old Babylonian Empire when Hammurabi destroyed Mari.[7]

Under Zimri-Lim of Mari (r. 1775–1761 BC), Hana was part of the Kingdom of Mari. In Year 33 of Hammurabi of Babylon (1760 BC BC) he attacked and destroyed Mari. In Year 35 (1758 BC) he returned to destroy the city walls.

Hana Early Kingdom

Following the fall of Mari (c. 1760 BC), the Kingdom of Hana formed establishing its capital at Terqa. Terqa had formerly been a provincial center in the Mari Kingdom. It came to control much of the territory formerly held by Mari, in the Middle Euphrates and Lower Khabur.

  • Iapah-sūmû-abu | c. 1750s BC | may be mentioned as an "Overseer of the Haneans" in a tablet at Alalakh during the time of Abban-El I of Yamhad. Was also contemporary with Hammurabi of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 BC).
  • Isi-Sumuabi | c. 1735 BC |
  • Yadih-Abu | c. 1720s BC | Attested as defeated in Year 28 of Samsu-Iluna of Babylon.

More obscure kings of Hana

  • Kaštiliašu | His name is Kassite indicating he was not part of the royal succession, perhaps installed by Samsu-Iluna.
  • Šunuhrû-Ammu |
  • Ammī-madar |

During the reign of the Babylonian king

Abieshu (c. 1711–1684 BC) Babylonia
lost its territories on the middle Euphrates where the kingdom of Hana was formed. No direct evidence is available on the relationship of the new state and its kings with the last Babylonian rulers from the First Dynasty.

Sack of Babylon. Mursili I of the Hittites marched from Hattusa through the Euphrates valley to the Sack of Babylon, in 1595 BC (High Middle Chronology) or 1587 BC (Low Middle Chronology). The event brought to an end the Old Babylonian period. It implies he had support from the Haneans. In an anekdote, the Kassite ruler Agum II of Babylon brought back from Hana the Statue of Marduk. The statue had been in Hana since Mursili I of the Hittites sacked Babylon.

Late Bronze

Mitanni period

Hana Middle Kingdom

The kingdom was probably conquered around the middle of the 15th century BC by the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni.[8]

  • Iddin-Kakka
  • Išar-Lim
  • Iggid-Lim[9]
  • Isih-Dagan
  • Ahuni
  • Hammurabi
  • Qiš-Addu | c. 1420 BC | was contemporary with the Mitannian kings Parattarna/Parittarna, Sausadatra, and Saitarna.

The Kassite domination

There is some evidence about a link between the kingdom of Hana and the

Khashtiliash, notably suggests a Kassite origin.[4] There is also a Kassite element in the name of a canal dug by one of the other rulers.[4]

One dedicatory inscription preserved in later copies records the return of Marduk’s statue from Hana by Agum II (Agum-Kakrime), a later Kassite king, most probably the first to rule over most of Babylonia (c. 1570 BC). The part of the inscription that mentions Hana reads:

I sent to the distant land, to the land of the Haneans and they conducted Marduk and Sarpanitu back to me. I returned Marduk and Sarpanitu, the ones who love my reign, to the Esagil and Babylon. I returned them to the temple that Shamash had confirmed to me in my investigation.[10]

Even if the text does not convey clearly the relationship between the Kassite Agum II and "the Haneans" at that point, it nevertheless links Hana with the sack of Babylonia by the Hittite king

Samsuiluna, the Kassites, originally coming from the Zagros Mountains, withdrew north occupying and imposing control over middle Euphrates including the lands of Khana.[11] It is also reasonable to assume some sort of cooperation between the Hittite and Khana as the invading armies of Murshilish I must have passed through its territories. Such alliance may have facilitated the seizing of power in Babylon by the Kassites some years after the Hittite retreat.[12][13]

This later Neo-Assyrian inscription copy, which purports to detail the return of cult statues of the city of Babylon, lost in the fall of that city, from Hana is generally considered to be a forgery.[14]

References

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  2. ^ Amanda H. Podany, A Middle Babylonian Date for the Ḫana Kingdom, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 43/45, pp. 53-62, (1991 - 1993)
  3. ^ Podany, Amanda H. "Hana and the Low Chronology." Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 73, no. 1, 2014, pp. 49–71
  4. ^
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  5. ^ Chavalas, Mark, "Terqa and the Kingdom of Khana", The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 90–103, 1996
  6. ISBN 978-0674728820
    . Kosmin is citing Giorgio Buccellati 1988, "The Kingdom and Period of Khana".
  7. ^ Giorgio Buccellati, The Kingdom and Period of Khana, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 270, Ancient Syria, pp. 43-61, (May, 1988)
  8. ^ [1] Yamada, Shigeo, "An adoption contract from Tell Taban, the kings of the land of Hana, and the Hana-style scribal tradition", Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale 105.1, pp. 61-84, 2011
  9. ^ [2] Podany, Amanda H., et al., "An Adoption and Inheritance Contract from the Reign of Iggid-Lim of Ḫana", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 43/45, pp. 39–51, 1991
  10. ^ Longman, Tremper. Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study, 1991, p. 222.
  11. ^ Kuiper, Kathleen. Mesopotamia: The World's Earliest Civilization, 2011.
  12. ^ Nissen H. J., Heine P. From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History, 2009.
  13. ^ Saggs, H. W. F. Babylonians, 2000.
  14. ^ Susanne Paulus, "Fraud, Forgery, and Fiction: Is There Still Hope for Agum-Kakrime?", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 70, pp. 115–66, 2018
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