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Zimri-Lim ruled Mari for about fifteen years, and campaigned extensively to establish his power in the neighboring areas along the Euphrates and the Khabur valley. He extended the royal palace in the city, which was possibly the largest at the time, containing over 260 rooms at the ground level, and certainly the envy of other kings.
The Sumerian King List (SKL) records a dynasty of six kings from Mari enjoying hegemony between the dynasty of Adab and the dynasty of Kish. [1] The names of the Mariote kings were damaged on the early copies of the list, [2] and those kings were correlated with historical kings that belonged to the second kingdom. [3]
Shibtu was born to the royal family of the kingdom of Yamhad.Her parents were Yarim-Lim I, king of Yamhad, and Gashera, his queen consort. [2] Zimrilim was forced to flee Mari when his father the king, Iakhdunlim, was assassinated in a palace coup and Yasmah-Adad usurped the throne.
The earliest attested king in the letter of Enna-Dagan is Ansud, who is mentioned as attacking Ebla, the traditional rival of Mari with whom it had a long war, [25] and conquering many of Ebla's cities, including the land of Belan. [note 4] [24] The next king mentioned in the letter is Saʿumu, who conquered the lands of Ra'ak and Nirum.
A main target for expansion was the city of Mari, which controlled the caravan route between Anatolia and Mesopotamia. King Yahdun-Lim of Mari (fl. c. 1800 BC – c. 1700 BC) was assassinated by his own servants (possibly on Shamshi-Adad I's orders.) The heir to the throne of Mari, Zimri-Lim, was forced to flee to Yamhad. Shamshi-Adad I seized ...
The fact that Zimri-Lim became king with the help of Yamhad meant that Mari was a semi-client state of Yamhad, [11] and in the correspondence between Zimri-Lim and Hammurabi's father Yarim-Lim I, the king of Mari calls Yarim-Lim his father. This situation helped Yamhad's trade because of Mari's location between Babylon and Aleppo.
Yatar-Ami was a king of Carchemish proposed to have reigned between 1766 and 1764 BCE. [1] Son of Aplahanda, he enjoyed a brief reign of only two years before being succeeded by Yahdun-Lim. [1] He is known to have continued the profitable lumber trade with Mari. [2]
Shamshi-Adad I played a major role in his son's life and frequently micromanaged his son's affairs. In one instance, to facilitate a military alliance with the western Syrian city-state of Qatna, an ally in the fight against the enemy state of Yamkhad, Shamshi-Adad I arranged for his son's marriage to Princess Beltum, the daughter of the king of Qatna, Ishi-Adad. [4]