Episode C18 – Qarqar

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Synopsis: A coalition marshalled by Hadad-ezer of Aram-Damascus and Urahilina of Hamath successfully defends southern Syria from further Assyrian encroachment. But a decade of campaigning by Shalmaneser begins to take its toll. “I destroyed, devastated, and set fire to Qarqar, his royal city. Urahilina brought twelve kings to his support; they came against me to offer battle and fight: 1,200 chariots, 1,200 cavalry, and 20,000 soldiers belonging to Hadad-ezer of Damascus; 700 chariots, 700 cavalry, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Urahilina of Hamath; 2,000 chariots, and 10,000 soldiers belonging to Ahab, the Israelite; 500 soldiers belonging to the Gueans; 1,000 soldiers belonging to the Musreans; 10 chariots and 10,000 soldiers belonging to the Irkanateans; 200 soldiers belonging to Matinuba’il the Arwadite; 200 soldiers belonging to the Usanateans; 30 chariots and 1,000 soldiers belonging to Adunu-ba’il the Shianean; 1,000 camels belonging to Gindibu’ the Arabian; and 1,000 soldiers [belonging to] Baasha, son of Ruhubi, the Ammonite. Trusting in the exalted might which the lord Assur had given me, in the mighty weapons, which Nergal, who goes before me, had presented to me, I battled with them.” – The Kurkh Stele of Shalmaneser III Map of the Early Iron Age Near East: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Near_East.jpg Map of Early Iron Age Southern Syria and Canaan: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Canaan.jpg The Kings of Syria and Canaan: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Season_3_King_List.pdf Episode Images: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C18_Images.pdf References and Further Reading: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C18_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	A dozen miles northeast of his imperial showpiece of Kallhu, Asher Nasser Paul II built
0:38.6	a second city named Imgur Enlil, or Enlil Agreed.
0:44.6	Why it was found it isn't entirely clear, but two of the city's major monuments were
0:50.3	a royal palace and directly adjacent a temple to Mamu, the Assyrian god of dreams.
0:58.8	Not just any dreams, but of meaningful dreams regarded as capable of influencing the future.
1:06.7	The goddess Mamu began her existence as daughter of the Akkadian sun god Utu and his wife Aya,
1:14.3	the mourning maker, or goddess of the dawn.
1:18.2	But she was also sometimes viewed as male, which was apparently the case at the temple
1:23.6	of Imgur Enlil.
1:26.8	Some of the temple's more striking features were a set of massive cedar gates 20 feet high.
1:34.0	As historian John E. Curtis relates, the gates were partly covered and reinforced by embossed
1:41.0	and chased strips of bronze, eight on each side, nailed to the faces of the doors and
1:47.5	around the doorposts.
1:50.4	They also featured a sheathing of bronze running from the top to the bottom of the free
1:55.9	edge of each door, each of which held an inscription.
2:01.7	The gates of the Mamu temple were one of three such pairs of gates raised in the city,
2:08.0	and remarkably bronze bands from all three gates have made their way down to us.
2:14.9	The bands from the Mamu temple are currently housed in the Mosul Museum, while the remains
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