Diether Schürr*
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* – Independent scholar. Email: diether.schuerr@gmx.net
Cite as Schürr, D. 2023: Musanzi, Muškanzi und Suranzi in Karkamiš. Hungarian Assyriological Review 4: 141–147.
Abstract
The fame of Yariris, a Karkamiš statesman of around 800 BC, did not only reach Egypt and Babylon but also three, probably neighbouring peoples in the north. The Musanzi are here linked with the land Muša between the Euphrates and Malatya, mentioned once in an Urartian inscription, and the Muškanzi with the land Muška, mentioned in two Late Luwian inscriptions of great king Hartapus: probably not Phrygia or another enemy country, but his own land, i.e., the later Lycaonia. The Suranzi are certainly the people of the land Sura, an enemy of Karkamiš, defeated around 1000 BC: probably, the land of the Syr(i)oi or Leukosyrioi in Greek tradition, i.e., Cappadocia.
Near Eastern geography; Early Iron Age; Hieroglyphic/Late Luwian inscriptions, Urartian inscriptions
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