Armi , was an important Bronze Age city-kingdom during the late third millennium BC located in northern Syria , or in southern Anatolia , Turkey, at the region of Cilicia .
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38-463: A Manufacturing USA research institute People with the name [ edit ] Armi Aavikko , Finnish singer Armi Kuusela , Finnish model Armi Ratia , founder of Marimekko Armi Toivanen , Finnish actress Frank Armi , American race car driver Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Armi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
57-577: A great military expedition against Armi and occupied it. Ibbi-Sipish's son Enzi-Malik took up residence in Armi. Armi wasn't mentioned after the destruction of Ebla. Many theories have been proposed for this destruction. Historian Michael C. Astour believes that the destruction of Ebla and Armi would have happened c. 2290 BC during the reign of Lugal-zage-si of Sumer, whose rule coincided with Sargon of Akkad 's first years. King Naram-Sin of Akkad mentions that he conquered Armanum and Ib-la and captured
76-535: Is a question of whether or not Armi should be identified with Armanum , that is also mentioned in many texts of this period. According to Adelheid Otto (2006), it is "... generally accepted that Armanum should be identified with Armi/Armium of the Ebla texts ...", as opposed to Aleppo. But other scholars may disagree. Three different identifications of "Armi (Armium)" are given by Edwards (2019). This includes Samsat , Turkey, and Tall Bazi. Knowledge about Armi comes from
95-577: The Ebla tablets . It has been identified with Aleppo, and with the Tall Bazi /Tall Banat archaeological complex on the bank of the Euphrates 60 km south of Jarabulus . Piotr Steinkeller (2021) identifies Armi as a kingdom from Cilicia in southern Anatolia, Turkey, and considers that Ebla got timber from merchants of Armi who obtained it at Nur mountains, which were called "mountains of fir" by
114-463: The Eblaites. Armi is the city most often referred to in the Ebla texts. Armi was a vassal kingdom for Ebla , it had its own kings and worked as a trade center and Trading intermediary for Ebla. Giovanni Pettinato describes Armi as Ebla's alter ego. However, the relations between the two cities is complicated, for it wasn't always peaceful: the texts of Ebla mention the exchange of gifts between
133-469: The Mariote monarch as a tool to assert Mari's authority, as it contained a historic telling of the victories won by Enna-Dagans's predecessors over Ebla. Irkab-Damu launched a successful counteroffensive against Mari, and ended the tribute. He expanded the borders of Ebla to its greatest extent, and controlled an area roughly half the size of modern Syria , half of which was under the direct control of
152-595: The battle happened near a town called Batin (which might be located in northeastern Aleppo), and that a messenger arrived in Ebla with news of the defeat of Armi. Ebrium's son and successor as vizier, Ibbi-Sipish , conducted a military campaign in his third year against the city of Bagara. The scribe who describes the campaign quotes a military expedition against Armi while speaking about the campaign against Bagara, which might mean that Bagara belonged to Armi. Ibbi-Sipish conducted more military actions against Armi, and several other texts of his mention his campaigns against
171-634: The capture of its king Rid-Adad. Astour believes that the Armanum mentioned in the inscriptions of Naram-Sin is not the same city as the Eblaite Armi, as Naram-Sin makes it clear that the Ebla he sacked (c. 2240 BC) was a border town of the land of Arman, while the Armi in the Eblaite tablets is a vassal to Ebla and (according to Astour), the Syrian Ebla would have been burned in 2290 BC (based on
190-399: The daughter of the king. Diplomacy was an important part of Irkab-Damu's policy, a clay tablet found in the archives at Ebla, bears a copy of a diplomatic message sent from Ebla to king Zizi of Hamazi , along with a large quantity of wood, hailing him as a brother, and requesting him to send mercenaries in exchange. Gifts from Ancient Egypt were discovered in the royal palace, indicating
209-416: The far reaching relations of Ebla, which is described by Karl Moore as the history first world power. Irkab-Damu was the son of Igrish-Halam and his queen Kesdut . He ruled for eleven years, and married Dusigu in his fifth year on the throne. Irkab-Damu last two years saw the rise of vizier Ibrium , who campaigned against Abarsal during Arrukum 's term, and became Ebla's strongest official during
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#1732766101129228-506: The first Eblaite kingdom , whose era saw Ebla's turning into the dominant power in the Levant . During his reign, the vizier started to acquire an important role in running the affair of the state and the military. Irkab-Damu's reign is also noted for the wide diplomatic relations between Ebla and the surrounding kingdoms. Irkab-Damu succeeded king Igrish-Halam, whose reign was characterized by an Eblaite weakness, and tribute paying to
247-473: The king and administered by governors, while the rest consisted of vassal kingdoms paying tribute and supplying military assistance to Ebla. A tablet from Ebla mention an Eblaite victory over Nagar , most probably during Irakb-Damu's reign. The same tablet mention the concluding of a treaty with Enna-Dagan. Irkab-Damu appointed Arrukum as the first vizier of Ebla , who kept his office for five years, and had his son Ruzi-Malik marrying princess Iti-Mut ,
266-527: The king of Armanum, the similarities between the names led historian Wayne Horowitz to identify Armanum with Armi. If Armi was in fact Armanum mentioned by Naram-Sin, then the event can be dated to c. 2240 BC. In any case, it is clear that the whole of northern Syria including Ebla and Armi was under the domination of the Akkadian empire during the reign of Naram-Sin. Naram-Sin gives a long description of his siege of Armanum, his destruction of its walls, and
285-461: The kingdom of Mari with whom Ebla fought a long war. Irkab-Damu started his reign by concluding a peace and trading treaty with Abarsal (probably located along the Euphrates river east of Ebla), one of the first recorded treaties in history. Ebla paid tribute to Mari during Irkab-Damu's first years on the throne. A letter from king Enna-Dagan of Mari was discovered at Ebla, and was used by
304-465: The kingdom. For example, he received linen textiles for one of these campaigns. Relations between Ebla and Armi are no less complicated than the relations between Ebla and Mari . The Eblan texts mention two interdynastic marriages with the son of the king of Nagar and that of Kish , but despite very close relations between Ebla and Armi an interdynastic marriage is never attested. During its final years, Ebla—in alliance with Nagar and Kish—conducted
323-588: The kings but also wars between the two kingdoms. The relations between the two kingdoms are ambiguous, as ongoing work on the Ebla Tablets has revealed. Many Eblan merchants were active in Armi and vice versa, but despite intensive commercial exchange, it seems that relations deteriorated during the reign of the Eblan king Irkab-Damu 's successor Isar-Damu , whose powerful vizier Ebrium waged war against Armi in his ninth year as vizier. The texts mention that
342-473: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armi&oldid=1027419433 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Armi (Syria) There
361-406: The political map given in the Eblaite tablets) long before the reign of Naram-Sin. The inscriptions of Armi, dated ca. 2500-2300 BC, are thought to contain the earliest attested Anatolian (and Indo-European ) language — namely, a list of male personal names ending in -adu (such as La-wadu and Mu-lu-wa-du). Irkab-Damu Irkab-Damu (reigned c. 2340 BC), was the king ( Malikum ) of
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