Hanun-Dagan

Hanun-Dagan (meaning "Dagan is merciful"),[1] was the Shakkanakku and king (Lugal) of Mari reigning c. 2008-2016 BC.[2] He was the brother of his predecessor Hitlal-Erra,[3] and is recorded as the son of Shakkanakku Puzur-Ishtar on a seal discovered in the city.[4] Although the title of Shakkanakku designated a military governor,[5] the title holders in Mari were independent monarchs,[6] and nominally under the vassalage of the Ur III dynasty.[7] Some Shakkanakkus used the royal title Lugal in their votive inscriptions, while using the title of Shakkanakku in their correspondence with the Ur's court,[8] and it is certain that Hanun-Dagan used the royal title.[9]

Hanun-Dagan
Shakkanakku and king of Mari
Reignc. 2016 – 2008 BC Middle Chronology
PredecessorHitlal-Erra
Shakkanakku and king of Mari

Hanun-Dagan was a contemporary of Ibbi-Sin of Ur,[10] and is credited with renovating the Royal Palace of Mari.[11] Unlike most of their predecessors who bore Akkadian names, both Hanun-Dagan and his brother Hitlal-Erra bore Amorite names,[12] and seals in Mari records Hitlal-Erra as a military official under Puzur-Ishtar, leading Piotr Michalowski to suspect a coup that deposed the family of Puzur-Ishtar and replaced it with Hanun-Dagan's family.[13] The succession of Shakkanakkus following Hanun-Dagan's reign is difficult to determine as the lists are full of gaps.[10]

Shakkanakku Hanun-Dagan of Mari
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Hitlal-Erra		 Shakkanakku of Mari
2016-2008 BC		 Succeeded by
Isi-Dagan ?

Citations
  1. Lluís Feliu (2003). The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria. p. 60.
  2. Georges Roux (1992). Ancient Iraq. p. 690.
  3. Gwendolyn Leick (2002). Who's Who in the Ancient Near East. p. 86.
  4. Gwendolyn Leick (2002). Who's Who in the Ancient Near East. p. 67.
  5. Cyrus Herzl Gordon; Gary Rendsburg; Nathan H. Winter (2002). Eblaitica vol.4. p. 64.
  6. Trevor Bryce (2009). The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. p. 451.
  7. Trevor Bryce (2014). Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. p. 18.
  8. Cyrus Herzl Gordon; Gary Rendsburg; Nathan H. Winter (2002). Eblaitica vol.4. p. 132.
  9. Juan Oliva (2008). Textos para un historia política de Siria-Palestina I (in Spanish). p. 91.
  10. Douglas Frayne (1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC). p. 593.
  11. Harriet Crawford (2013). The Sumerian World. p. 987.
  12. Wolfgang Heimpel (2003). Letters to the King of Mari: A New Translation, with Historical Introduction, Notes, and Commentary. p. 22.
  13. Piotr Michalowski (2004). 2000 v. Chr. Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung im Zeichen einer Jahrtausendwende: 3. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 4.-7. April 2004 in Frankfurt/Main und Marburg/Lahn - The Ideological Foundations of the Ur III State. p. 233.
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