Yahdun-Lim
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Yahdunlim (or Yakhdunlim, Yahdun-Lim) was the king of
Reign
Yahdun-Lim started his reign by subduing seven of his rebelling tribal leaders, and rebuilding the walls of Mari and Terqa in addition to building a new fort which he named Dur-Yahdun-Lim.[1]
Yahdun-Lim's kingdom was threatened by incursions from various
He then expanded west and claimed to have reached the Mediterranean,[2][3] however he later had to face a rebellion by the Banu-Yamina nomads who were centered at Tuttul, and the rebels were supported by Yamhad's king Sumu-Epuh, whose interests were threatened by the recently established alliance between Yahdun-Lim and Eshnunna.[4][2] Yahdun-Lim defeated the Yamina but an open war with Yamhad was avoided.[5]
Shamshi-Adad I
Yahdun-Lim then became occupied by his rivalry with
He received pleas for help from kings threatened by Shamshi-Adad's expansionist plans. But before Yahdunlim could move against Shamshi-Adad, he was assassinated in c. 1798 BC by his possible son Sumu-Yamam,[7][8] who himself got assassinated two years after ascending the throne.
But according to William J. Hamblin, Yahdun-Lim was killed in a battle with Shamshi-Adad ca 1796 BC. Shamshi-Adad then assigned his son
In the chaos that followed, Shamshi-Adad advanced and annexed Mari.[10] The war ended in a defeat for Mari.[6][11]
Yahdul-Lim of Carchemish may also be sometimes referred to as Yahdun-Lim.
See also
Notes
- ^ Frayne 1990, p. 603.
- ^ a b Frayne 1990, p. 606.
- ^ Fowden 2013, p. 93.
- ^ Bryce 2009, p. 451.
- ^ Bryce 2014, p. 19.
- ^ a b Pitard 2001, p. 38.
- ^ Launderville 2003, p. 271.
- ^ Frayne 1990, p. 613.
- ^ Bryce 2014, p. 20.
- ^ Van Der Meer 1955, p. 29.
Literature
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- Bryce, Trevor (2014). Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-100292-2.
- Fowden, Garth (21 November 2013). Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-4816-4.
- Frayne, Douglas (1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003–1595 BC). The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods. Vol. 4. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5873-7.
- Launderville, Dale (2003). Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4505-4.
- Pitard, Wayne T. (2001) [1998]. "Before Israel: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age". In Coogan, Michael David (ed.). The Oxford History of the Biblical World (revised ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513937-2.
- Van Der Meer, Petrus (1955) [1947]. The Chronology of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui. Vol. 2 (2 ed.). Brill. OCLC 4727997.