Zahiran also known as Sahiri or Sa-hi-ri,[1] also known as Zahiran[2] was an Iron Age city of the ancient near east.[3] It was a city in what is today Syria.
During the Mari–Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between Igrish-Halam King of Ebla,[4][5][6][7] and Iblul-il, King of Mari.[8][9] About a decade later it would be absorbed into the empire of Sargon of Akkad.
The town was sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC). The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3,[10] states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu[broken anchor] the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods."[11][12]
References
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- ^ Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Gary Rendsburg, Nathan H. Winter, Eblaitica (Eisenbrauns, 1987 ) p260.
- ^ Fr. Joseph Ponessa, Laurie Manhardt, Sharon Doran, Come and See: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2014 )
- ^ Dolce, Rita (2008). "Ebla before the Achievement of Palace G Culture: An Evaluation of the Early Syrian Archaic Period". In Kühne, Hartmut; Czichon, Rainer Maria; Kreppner, Florian Janoscha. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 29 March - 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin. 2. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05757-8. p68.
- ^ Michalowski, Piotr (1995). Van Lerberghe, Karel; Schoors, Antoon, eds. Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. 65. Peeters Publishers & Department of Oriental Studies, Leuven. ISBN 978-90-6831-727-5. ISSN 0777-978X p462.
- ^ Roux G, Ancient Iraq. (Penguin UK, 1992) p.200.
- ^ Feliu L., (Brill, 2003) p40.
- ^ Aaron Alexander Burke, The Architecture Of Defense: Fortified Settlements Of The Levant During The Middle Bronze Age (Volume One) 2004. p183.
- ^ Edgar Peltenberg (2007). Euphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC. p. 118.
- ^ Chronicle Concerning the Fall of Nineveh at livis.com.
- ^ A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (1975)
- ^ Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.