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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <h3>Early Bronze Age</h3> <h4>Akkadian Period</h4> <p>Under its king Kashtubila, Kazalla warred against <a href="/facts/Sargon_of_Akkad/F4WkV2w6">Sargon of Akkad</a> in the 24th or 23rd century BC. Sargon laid the city of Kazalla to waste so effectively that "the birds could not find a place to perch away from the ground."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> This particular story was written a millennium or more after the fact and is considered a literary composition.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> The second ruler of the <a href="/facts/Akkadian_Empire/kWx9zFF6">Akkadian Empire</a>, <a href="/facts/Rimush/8Jaw8AWj">Rimush</a>, suppressed a revolt by Kazallu reporting: </p> <blockquote><p>"Rimus, king of the world — the god Enlil did indeed grant kingship to him. ... Thereupon, on his return, Kazallu revolted. He conquered it and [wi]thin Kazallu (itself) struck down 12,052 men. He took 5,862 captives. Further, he captured Ašarēd, governor of Kazallu and destroyed its (Kazallu's) wall. ... "<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></p></blockquote> <p>A number of land grant inscriptions, the predecessors of <a href="/facts/Kudurru/MXrM23eN">Kudurrus</a>, from the reign of <a href="/facts/Manishtushu/nacWIPDE">Manishtushu</a> the third king of the Akkadian Empire, mention feasts occurring in Kazallu and people from Kazallu.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> Kazallu also joined the "great revolt" led by Kish against the 4th Akkadian ruler <a href="/facts/Naram-Sin_of_Akkad/IJGwhsRy">Naram-Sin</a>. Naram-Sin crushed the revolt and in an inscription mentioned defeating "Puzur-Numusda, governor of Kazallu". </p> <h4>Ur III period</h4> <p>It is unclear how that governor relates to the one under Ur III.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> The city was briefly under the control of Elam under <a href="/facts/Puzur-Inshushinak/4ECUCMEz">Puzur-Inshushinak</a> until Elam fell to Ur with the first Ur III ruler, <a href="/facts/Ur-Nammu/WaG7nBXo">Ur-Nammu</a> writing "Then: Umma, Marda, Šubur, Kazallu, and their settlements, and whatsoever was oppressed by Anšan, verily, I established their freedom".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> Under the Ur III empire, the city was ruled by ensi (governors).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> Some of them, Ititi (appointed in 28th year of <a href="/facts/Shulgi/oKElFrmT">Shulgi</a>), Izariq (S31), Kallamu (S43), Šu-Mama (S47), and Apillaša (appointed in year 7 of <a href="/facts/Amar-Suen/Y4yMHDAX">Amar-Suen</a> continuing until at least year 5 of <a href="/facts/Shu-Sin/2wXD9ewx">Shu-Sin</a>), are known by name. It has been suggested that Su-Mama and Apillaša had a period of co-regency.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> There is a letter from <a href="/facts/Ibbi-Sin/LbeWKIS3">Ibbi-Sin</a>, the last ruler of Ur III, and Puzur-Numušda 1 who he had made governor of Kazallu, complaining that he (Girbubu, governor of Girkal, a city associated with Kazaalu in a geographic list) was not doing enough to oppose <a href="/facts/Ishbi-Erra/mSIbXwa2">Ishbi-Erra</a>, ruler of Isin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> A notable letter sent to Ibbi-Sin reads: </p> <blockquote><p>"To Ibbi-Suen, my king, speak what Ishbl-Erra, your servant, says: I was charged with an expedition to Isin and Kazallu to buy grain. Grain is (now) reaching the rate of one gur (for) each (shekel) and the 20 talents of silver for buying grain have been spent. ... Now the Martus in their entirety have entered the interior of the country taking one by one all the great fortresses. ...<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a></p></blockquote> <p>The year name 12 of Ur III ruler <a href="/facts/Shulgi/oKElFrmT">Shulgi</a> was "Year Numushda of Kazallu was brought into his temple".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p> <h3>Middle Bronze</h3> <h4>Isin-Larsa period</h4> <p>In the <a href="/facts/Isin-Larsa_period/AY1cu809">Isin-Larsa period</a>, between the fall of the Ur III empire until <a href="/facts/Hammurabi/FRm62rbU">Hammurabi</a> finally establishes supremacy for Babylon in the region, Kazallu is often mentioned in the conflicts of that time. In the early 2nd millennium BC the city had a number of conflicts with <a href="/facts/Larsa/Nz2HuF60">Larsa</a>. A year name of <a href="/facts/Sin-Iqisham/xN9n1W1a">Sin-Iqisham</a> records "Year (Sin-iqiszam) made (statues) of / for Numuszda, Namrat and Lugal-apiak and brought them into the city of Kazallu".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> The 2nd year name of <a href="/facts/Warad-Sin/W5e4GPsz">Warad-Sin</a> reads "Year the city wall of Kazallu was destroyed and the army of Mutibal occupying Larsa was smitten by weapons". Larsa ruler <a href="/facts/Kudur-Mabuk/aJeUm1Bq">Kudur-Mabuk</a> also reports repelling the forces of Kazullu.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> A ruler of <a href="/facts/Isin/IS1YI768">Isin</a>, <a href="/facts/Erra-imitti/RxT7kfka">Erra-imitti</a>, also claimed to have destroyed Kazullu. And <a href="/facts/R%25C3%25AEm-Anum/IP27ENNR">Rîm-Anum</a>, ruler of Uruk, reports in a year name "Year in which Rim-Anum the king defeated the land of <a href="/facts/Emutbal/JPNh8eTk">Emutbal</a>, the troops of Esznunna, Isin and Kazallu who marched together against him to make booty ... which was not counted since ancient times ... and defeated them".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> </p> <h4>Babylonian period</h4> <p>Kazallu briefly became a city-state in its own right before falling to Babylon. The 4th year name of Sumu-El states the defeat of Kazallu ie "Year Akusum was destroyed and the army of Kazallu was smitten by weapons". His 15th year name reports that again ie "Year Sumuel the king defeated with his weapons the army of Kazallu and his king". The 13th year name of Babylonian ruler Sumu-abum lists the actual destruction or destruction of Kazallu ie "Year Sumu-abum seized/destroyed Kazallu". After the fall of the First Babylonian Empire the city of Kazallu is no longer recorded in history.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="location">Location</h2> <p>According to a tablet from the reign of <a href="/facts/Gudea/NmRI8msw">Gudea</a> of <a href="/facts/Lagash/SQwkGota">Lagash</a>, Kazallu was located somewhere to the west of <a href="/facts/Mesopotamia/f0mmbhTK">Mesopotamia</a>, in the land of <a href="/facts/Amorites/phVjneVo">Martu</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> According to a letter to <a href="/facts/Ibbi-S%25C3%25AEn/LbeWKIS3">Ibbi-Sîn</a> the Martu were hindering travel between Ur and Kazallu.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> Some scholars today believe it was only about 15 km from the city of <a href="/facts/Babylon/Iz0TwTXS">Babylon</a>, and just west of the Euphrates. In texts from Drehem the city is said to be to the east of the unlocated city of Girtab.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> Old Babylonian records have it as being in the area of <a href="/facts/Marad/L4gcJ4bq">Marad</a> (modern Tell as-Sadoum).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> Another researcher has suggested that Kazallu can be found "in the area east or southeast of Dilbat".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> And yet another "likely modern Azragiya on the Euphrates located 4 kms northwest of Fallujah".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cities_of_the_ancient_Near_East/H0U4eIG7">Cities of the ancient Near East</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_Mesopotamian_dynasties/Cvp2KV41">List of Mesopotamian dynasties</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Edzard, D. O., "Qīšum, Ensi Von Kazallu", In Zikir Šumim, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 26-33, 1882</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Jonathan L. Ready, "Zeus, Ancient Near Eastern Notions of Divine Incomparability, and Similes in the Homeric Epics", Classical Antiquity, vol. 31, no. 1, University of California Press, pp. 56–91, 2012 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sharlach, Tonia. "Šulgi, Mighty Man, King of Ur", Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Warsaw, 21–25 July 2014, edited by Olga Drewnowska and Malgorzata Sandowicz, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 211-220, 2011 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Helle, Sophus, "The Temple Hymns", in Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 53-94, 2023 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Stol, M., "An Old Babylonian Contract", Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 55–56, 1976 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Mander, P., "A Brief Survey on the Expression of Emotions in Cuneiform Literatures", Ming Qing Yanjiu, 12(1), pp. 95-130, 2003 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>The lament for Sumer and Urim: translation - ETSCL <a href="https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr223.htm#" target="_blank">https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr223.htm#</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Oppenheim, A. 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