Haddu Explained

Haddu, identified with the modern Tell Malhat ed-Deru (تل مليحة الدور), was an ancient kingdom in northern Syria in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.^[1]

History

Early Bronze

In the middle of the third millennium BC, the Kingdom of Haddu flourished and controlled the middle Khabur valley.^[2]

Ebla-Mari War

It was ruled by its own monarch who was a vassal of Ebla,^[3] and fought against the kingdom of Mari.^[4] The king of Haddu declared to Mari's ambassador that he "I and Ebla have a pact of peace. And the oath of the pact is before Kura (the main Eblaite god) and before Hadda".

References

Bibliography

• Archi. Alfonso. 2010. Hadda of Ḫalab and his Temple in the Ebla Period. IRAQ. Cambridge University Press - On Behalf of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial). 72: In Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor David Hawkins. 20779017. 0021-0889.

Further reading

• Book: Kühne, Hartmut. Tall Malhat ed-Deru: Eine Station auf de Wegenach Kappadokie Kappadokien. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Kleinasiens : Festschrift für Kurt Bittel. Rainer Michael. Boehmer. Harald. Hauptmann. 1983. de. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern. 978-3-805-30585-3.
• Book: Philippe. Quenet. Ahmad. Sultan. Piotr. Bieliński. Michał. Gawlikowski. Rafał. Koliński. Dorota. Ławecka. Arkadiusz. Sołtysiak. Zuzanna. Wygnańska. Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 30 April – 4 May 2012, University of Warsaw. New Research in the Area of Malhat ed-Deru, Northeast Syria (Autumn 2010). 2: Excavation and Progress Reports Posters. 2014. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. 978-3-447-10174-5.

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Notes and References

1. Book: Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. Lauren Ristvet. 85. 2014. Cambridge University Press. 9781107065215.
2. Book: Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. Lauren Ristvet. 53. 2014. Cambridge University Press. 9781316195031.
3. Book: The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg. Diane Bolger, Louise C. Maguire. 133. 2010. Oxbow Books. 9781842178379.
4. Web site: Amalia Catagnoti : IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR. THE TRUCE BETWEEN EBLAAND MARI (ARET XVI 30) AND THE RANSOM OF PRISONERS, Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale Vol. 106, pp 50. Presses Universitaires de France. 2012. 26 February 2015.