there was welfare in the land for thirty-five years.[1] Nammahni, another ishakku of the same place, rebuilt an old temple of Ninurra at the time Arlagan was his ruler;[2] and a scribe of Umma dedicated a votive plaque to his king, Saratigubisin.[3]
Tirigan, a Gutian king whose name was given to several cities within the empire,[4] reigned but forty days before he fell a prey to the hate and violence of a native prince.[5] The rule of Gutium was over. Immediately whatever unity had existed within the kingdom disappeared, and tiny independent states arose in the Zagros regions and in Elam as well as in Babylonia. To us some of these principalities are old friends known from the days of Sargon or of Puzur-Inshushinak of Awan. Others are new, to whom the fall of Gutium for the first time gave freedom.
Far to the north, near the foothills of the Zagros, was Urbillum, more famous as Arbela, whose name
- ↑ Scheil, "Une nouvelle dynastie suméro-accadienne," Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1911, pp. 318–27; cf. Poebel, Historical Texts, pp. 134 f.
- ↑ Clay, Miscellaneous Inscriptions ("Yale Oriental Series," Babylonian Texts, Vol. I), No. 13, pp. 11 f., corrected by C. H. W. Johns, "The Dynasty of Gutium," PSBA, XXXVIII (1916), 199 f.
- ↑ Thureau-Dangin in "Notes assyriologiques," RA, IX (1912), 73–76; cf. Poebel, Historical Texts, p. 135.
- ↑ Cf. Sidney Smith, "The Three Cities Called Tirqan," JRAS, 1928, pp. 868–75. One city is described as lying "in front of Gutium" and is equated with Harhar; for a location of Harhar south of the Zeribor Sea on the upper Diyala cf. Billerbeck, Das Sandschak Suleimania, p. 63.
- ↑ Utuhegal of Uruk, whose text was cited above, p. 43.
