• Mardaman (modern Bassetki) was a northern Mesopotamian city that existed between ca.2200 and 1200 BC. It was uncovered in 2018 after translation of 92...
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  • heavily Semitic. The Turukkaeans were reported to have sacked the city of Mardaman, apparently under Hurrian rule, around the year 1769/68 BCE. Babylon's...
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  • Hellenistic, Islamic, and Modern periods. It may be the ancient city of Mardaman. In 1975 a fragment of a figure of Naram-Sin of Akkad, known as Bassetki...
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  • launched an attack on polities to the north, including Simanum, Habura, and Mardaman. "... (Sü-Sín)..., [the fl]ood which overwhelms the disobedient king (and)...
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    Leilan (Shekhna, Shubat-Enlil) Tell Halaf Tell Arbid Harran Chagar Bazar Mardaman (Bassetki) Kahat (Tell Barri) Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?) Hadatu (Arslan...
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  • (Šuwala) was a Hurrian goddess who was regarded as the tutelary deity of Mardaman, a Hurrian city in the north of modern Iraq. She was also worshiped in...
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  • Su-land and another area known as Mardaman supplied gold to Sumer. Su-land was most likely in Iran while Mardaman was in Turkey. Areas around the Kokcha...
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    symbolic form of birds sitting on a perch. Shuwala Mardaman Shuwala, the tutelary goddess of Mardaman, a city located in the north of modern Iraq, is attested...
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    Middle Babylonian period. She had temples in Assur, Kalhu, Tabetu and Mardaman. Attestations from outside Mesopotamia, for example from Emar and Ugarit...
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    region including several Hittite sites as well as Tell Bazi, Alalakh, Nuzi, Mardaman, Kemune, and Müslümantepe among others. Another major center of Hurrian...
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  • Bakr Awa Ginnig Gird-î Qalrakh Hatra Idu Isin Jarmo Karim-Shehir M'lefaat Mardaman Nemrik 9 Nimrud Nineveh Puzrish-Dagan Samarra Shanidar Tell Abada Tell...
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    main cities of the region attested in the inscriptions in this period are Mardaman, Azuhinum, Ninet (Nineveh), Arrapha, Urbilum, and Kurda. In early 2nd millennium...
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    Hurrian examples include Allatum (Allani) from Zimudar and Shuwala from Mardaman. While foreign deities were generally not worshiped in the official provincial...
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    Šuri. Šuwala Mardaman Hurrian Šuwala (ṯwl in alphabetic Ugaritic texts) was an underworld goddess who served as the tutelary deity of Mardaman, a Hurrian...
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    Šattiwaza treaty, where she is placed after Damkina. She was also venerated in Mardaman, east of the Tigris. A further location where she is attested in Hurrian...
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    Ebla and a deity whose name is not preserved, presumably Shuwala, and Mardaman. Kubaba was among the deities of foreign origin who came to be worshiped...
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    A connection between her and Shuwala, who was the tutelary goddess of Mardaman, is well attested. It has been proposed that it relied on the accidental...
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