Shamshi-Adad I (redirect from Samsi-Addu)
Shamshi-Adad (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across...
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1808–1776 BC) and his sons Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad. Shamshi-Adad (Samsi-Addu in his own Amorite language) was an Amorite king, originally ruling the...
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speculated that the god Ḫabūrītum was from the city of Habüra. In a text of Samsi-Addu found at Tell Shemshara it states "... As to Kušiya, why does he remain...
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mention Ḫit!” he said. “ The situation is similar to what had happened when Samsi-Addu forced Rapiqum out of the king of Ešnunna’s control and gave it to me...
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Yasmah-Adad (redirect from Yasmah-Addu)
to remove it. Now, I am sending to you with this letter the physician Samsi-Addu-tukuld; let him have a look at the medicine and then send him back immediately...
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for example in Old Babylonian Mari and in Kassite Nippur. Samsi-Addu in a letter to Yasmaḫ-Addu in which he complains about the latter commissioning more...
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Tiglath-Pileser III as result of this campaign in Palestine was the Qedarite queen Šamši. Tiglath-Pileser III's campaign had not only disrupted the interests of...
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Zimri-Lim, with the help of the king of Aleppo Yarim-Lim, deposed Yasmah-Addu and took the throne of Mari. Ibal-pi-el II tried to impose an alliance with...
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Shamshi-Adad's most dangerous alliance was with Qatna, whose king Ishi-Addu became Assyria's agent at Yamhad's borders and married his daughter to Yasmah-Adad...
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witnesses, and curses for those who did not respect the act. In 1595 BC, Samsi-Ditana, king of Babylon, was defeated by Mursili I, king of the Hittites...
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