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\n12  \n# NORTHERNMESOPOTAMIAANDSYRIA\n\nBY  \nJ.-R.KUPPER  \nDocteur special en Histoire et Philologie orientalesChargé de cours associé à PUniversité de Liege  \n## VOLUME II,CHAPTER I\n\nCAMBRIDGE anC·ent histowuAT THE UNIVERSITY PRESSI966  \nPU BLISHED BYTHE SYN DICS OF THE CAM BRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nBentley House,200 Euston Road,London,N.W.IAmerican Branch:32 East 57th Street,New York,N.Y.10022West African Ofice:P.O.Box 33,Ibadan,Nigeria  \nC  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \n96  \nFirst published 1963Reprinted9  \nPrinted in Great Britain at the University Printing House,Cambridge(Brooke Crutchley,University Printer)  \n## CHAPTER I\n\n# NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIAAND SYRIA\n\n## I.SHAMSHI-ADAD I\n\nScARCELY thirty years ago the figure of Hammurabi,the unifierof Babylonia,still stood out in striking isolation.In fact,at thetime he ascended the throne another centralized empire alreadyoccupied the whole of northern Mesopotamia:it was the personalcreation of Shamshi-Adad I,to whom recent discoveries havemade it possible to give his place in history.  \nWhereas Hammurabi had inherited a considerable territoryfrom his father,Shamshi-Adad had more modest beginnings.Hebelonged to one of the numerous nomad clans which had infil-trated into Mesopotamia after the break-up of the Third Dynastyof Ur.His father,Ila-kabkabu,ruled over a land bordering onthe kingdom of Mari,with which he had come into conflict.¹It isnot well known what happened next.According to one version,theauthenticity of which is not certain,Shamshi-Adad made hisway into Babylonia,while his brother succeeded to Ila-kabkabu.Later on he seized Ekallatum;the capture of this fortress,on theleft bank of the Tigris,in the southern reaches of the lower Zab,laid the gates of Assyria open to him.2 The moment was pro-pitious,for Assyria had only lately regained her independence,having previously had to submit to Naram-Sin of Eshnunna,whohad advanced as far as the upper Khabur.³But Naram-Sin'sconquests had been ephemeral:on his death,Assyria had shakenoff the yoke of Eshnunna,only to fall beneath that of Shamshi-Adad.Once installed on the throne of Ashur,the latter soon setabout extending his dominion in the direction of Mesopotamia.Among the archives of the palace of Mari has been found a letterfrom a prince of the'High Country'seeking the protection ofIakhdunlim.4 He feels that the encroachments of Shamshi-Adad,who has already taken several of his towns,are a threat to him;until then he had victoriously resisted the attacks of his neigh-bours from the lands of Aleppo,Carchemish and Urshu.But  \n1 G,6,207 f.,2I2.2 G,7,34 f.;G,6,2II;§I,5,26f.3 G,6,8n.I.4 G,I,vol.I,22,no.I.  \nIakhdunlim himself was to pass from the scene,assassinated byhis own servants,1 who perhaps acted on Shamshi-Adad's instiga-tion.At all events,he turned the affair to account by occupyingMari,while the heir to the throne,Zimrilim,took refuge with theking of Aleppo.The annexation of Mari represented a consider-able gain 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