Episode C16 – Kar Shalmaneser

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Synopsis: Shalmaneser’s Syrian invasions were countered by a coalition forged by King Ahuni of Bit-Adini. But repeated campaigns wore down his rivals and ended in Assyrian dominance. “Ahuni, terrified by my terrible, awe-inspiring weapons and my grim warfare, crossed over the Euphrates to save his life, and made his way to other lands. At the command of my lord Assur, the great lord, I annexed Til-barsip, Aligu, Nappigi and Rugulit as royal cities. I settled Assyrians there and built palaces in them for my royal residence. I renamed Til-barsip as Kar-Shalmaneser.” – Inscription of Shalmaneser III on the Kurkh Monolith Map of the Early Iron Age Near East: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Near_East.jpg Map of Early Iron Age Northern Syria: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Syria.jpg The Kings of Syria and Canaan: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Season_3_King_List.pdf Episode Images: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C16_Images.pdf References and Further Reading: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C16_References.pdf Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Scott.
0:03.9	If you're a fan of the ancient world, please support the Patreon page at patreon.com forward
0:10.5	slash the ancient world.
0:13.5	Thanks again for listening.
0:31.0	Like many rebels down through history, King Ahuni of Bitadini was mainly defined by his enemies.
0:39.0	And I mean that in both senses.
0:42.0	That he was defined by who and what he fought against, and how he decided to wage that fight.
0:49.0	And in a literal sense, that the only information we have about him comes from the annals of his opponents.
0:57.0	Luckily for us, the Neo-Assyrians kept meticulous records.
1:02.0	And useful details can sometimes be gleaned from even the blackest propaganda.
1:09.0	Up to this point, Ahuni done vanishingly little to stand out from his cow-towing Syrian neighbors.
1:17.0	Aside from not being recorded as visiting Call Who.
1:21.0	But as I noted last episode, he'd likely been far from idle.
1:26.0	As best we can tell, Ahuni'd occupied the 860s BC with prying cities west of the Euphrates,
1:34.0	out of the hands of Sengara of Carquemish, and folding them into the lands of Bitadini.
1:40.0	And in the final years of Asher Nasser Paul's reign, he apparently tried something new.
1:47.0	You can call it outreach or coercion or whipping up fear.
1:52.0	We don't really know what tactics he used.
1:56.0	But we do know the eventual result.
1:59.0	A broad coalition of Syrian kingdoms committed to mutual defense.
2:05.0	If not exactly a rebel alliance, it was at least a start.
2:10.0	And evidence points to King Ahuni as being its primary driver.
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