Mut-bisir

Mut-bisir or Mutu-bisir was a senior military official to the Amorite king Shamshi-Adad I.[1] His name appears repeatedly in the Mari letters, and means "man of Bishri", referring to the desert region around the Jebel Bishri.[2] In these letters, Anson Rainey describes him as "frequently mentioned in connection with troops located near the Euphrates."[3]

In one such letter, from Mut-bisir to Shamshi-Adad, he was the first recorded individual to refer to Canaanites by name (in Akkadian, Kinaḥnum).[4] In this letter, Mut-bisir describes his own soldiers and opposing Canaanite forces as tensely watching one another.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nele Ziegler (12 September 2016). "Economic Activities of Women According to Mari Texts (18th century BC)". In Brigitte Lion; Cécile Michel. The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East. De Gruyter. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-61451-908-9.
  2. ↑ Cinzia Pappi (2006). "The Jebel Bishri in the Physical and Cultural Landscape of the Ancient Near East". Kaskal, Volume 3. p. 248.
  3. 1 2 Anson F. Rainey (1979). "Toponymic Problems (cont.)", Tel Aviv, 6:3-4, 158-162, DOI: 10.1179/033443579788441172. p. 158.
  4. ↑ Nadav Na'aman; Nadav Naʼaman (2005). Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. Eisenbrauns. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-57506-113-9.
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