Pazarcık Stele
The Pazarcık Stele is an Assyrian monument which functioned as a boundary stone erected by the Assyrian kings to demarcate the border between their kingdoms of Kummuh and Gurgum.[1] The reverse and obverse of the stele have been inscribed in the Akkadian language in different times.
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In 805 BCE, as reported on the Pazarcık Stele, Kummuh king Ušpilulume (Šuppiluliuma) asked for the assistance of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III against the a coalition of eight kings led by Ataršumki of Arpad. Adad-nirari apparently travelled with his mother Šammuramat, defeated the alliance at Paqarhubuna, and established the border between Kummuh and Gurgum at Pazarcık.
In 773 BCE, the same boundary was re-established by Assyrian general (turtanu) Šamši-ilu acting on behalf of Assyrian king Shalmaneser IV.
References
- Dušek, Jan; Mynářová, Jana (2019-04-09). Aramaean Borders: Defining Aramaean Territories in the 10th – 8th Centuries B.C.E. BRILL. p. 13. ISBN 978-90-04-39853-5.
Further reading
- Edwin Clifford-Coupe, Settling a boundary dispute, Ancient Warfare vol. v-4, pp. 10–12, 2011.
- Zaccagnini, C. 1993, Notes on the Pazarcik Stela., State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 7 (1993), 53–72.