Ishqi-Mari

Ishqi-Mari
𒅖𒄄𒈠𒌷
King of Mari
Statue of Ishqi-Mari,[1] Aleppo National Museum. Here seen at an exhibition in the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris in 2014.[2][3][4]
Reignc. 2350-2330 BCE Middle Chronology
King of Mari
Mari is located in Near East
Mari
Mari
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Location of Mari, where Ishqi-Mari ruled.

Ishqi-Mari or Ishgi-Mari (𒅖𒄄𒈠𒌷 iš11-gi4-ma-rí),[5] previously read Lamgi-Mari,[6][1] was a King of the second Mariote kingdom who reigned c. 2350-2330 BCE. He is one of three Mari kings known from archaeology, Ikun-Shamash probably being the oldest one.[7] The third king is Iku-Shamagan, also known from an inscribed statue.

In their inscriptions, these Mari kings used a dialect of the Akkadian language, whereas their Sumerian contemporaries to the south used the Sumerian language.[7]

It is thought that Ishqi-Mari was the last king of Mari before the conquest and the destruction of Mari by the Akkadian Empire under Sargon circa 2330 BCE.[8]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AFC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Voués à Ishtar". Institut du monde arabe (in French). 19 July 2016.
  3. ^ Complete views of the statue upon discovery: Parrot, André (1935). Les fouilles de Mari (Première campagne). p. Plate VII.
  4. ^ "Voués à Ishtar. Syrie, janvier 1934: André Parrot découvre Mari (2014 exhibit)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  5. ^ Beyer, Dominique (18 December 2018). "Les sceaux de Mari au IIIe millénaire : Observations sur la documentation ancienne et les données nouvelles des villes I et II". Akh Purattim 1 (in French). MOM Éditions. pp. 231–260.
  6. ^ 𒇴𒄄𒈠𒌷
  7. ^ a b Spycket, Agnès (1981). Handbuch der Orientalistik (in French). BRILL. p. 86. ISBN 978-90-04-06248-1.
  8. ^ Eppihimer, Melissa (2019). Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians. Oxford University Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-19-090302-2.