Tardunni

Tar...dun...ni (Cuneiform: 𒋻...𒂅...𒉌, tar...dun...ni, or Tar…ni, …birini, …irpirin)[1] son of Ikki (also reads Ikkibshakhmat, or Ikkipshakhmat), was a king, prince, ruler, or high-ranking official of the Zagros mountains area, circa 2000 BC.[2] Although "Tardunni" is the way his name has been traditionally deciphered, he may have been called differently: it has been proposed that he was rather called Lisir Pirini, son of Ikkid Samad.[3]

Tardunni
Possible King, prince, ruler, or high-ranking official of Lullubi
Relief of "Tar...dunni"
ReignAround 2000 BC or late 3rd millennium BC
Tardunni relief
Location of the Tardunni relief in Iraq.

He is mainly known from a rock relief discovered in the valley of the Diyala river, in the Belula Pass, near the Lake of Darbandikhan, on the Horen Shekhan mountain (Kurdish: هۆرێن و شێخان; Arabic هورين- شيخان), in the extreme northeast of Iraq, near the border with Iran.[3]

Very little is known about Tardunni. He was probably a ruler of the Lullubi mountain tribe.[4] Some of their reliefs are known about 55 kilometers away, such as the Anubanini rock relief, which are very similar to the relief of Tardunni.[2][3] Another opinion suggests that he was a Gutian[5].

In his relief, he is seen wearing weapons and trampling enemies. On the side, the relief has an inscription in the Akkadian language, invoking the protection of the deities Shamash and Adad:[2]

"Tar...dunni, prefect (?), son of Sin (?)-Ipshah, all this image was replaced. As it was falling apart, he restored it. Anybody who destroys this image, his race, his name will be eradicated by Shamash and Adad!"

— Inscription of Tardunni.[6]
  • Rock-relief of Darband-i Belula at Horen Shekhan, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
  • Akkadian script of the rock-relief of Darband-i Belula, Horen Shekhan, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Drawing of Tardunni, and reproduction of the inscription.
  • Rock-relief of "Tar...dunni" at Darband-i Belula, Horen Shekhan, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
  • Inscription and transcription.
  • Portrait of Tardunni
  • The name "Ta...dun...ni" and its proposed transcription in standard Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform

See Also
gollark: That's mostly just recursive.
gollark: I assumed you were talking about religion there initially given the phrasing, which I do consider to involve horrible punishment for dubious ethical reasons. But in general it seems to basically just mean "punishment", with connotations of "in accordance with some allegedly fair procedure(s)".
gollark: Secularly, people generally mean "punish people" when they talk about justice as far as I can tell.
gollark: Well, religiously, "justice" seems to mostly be "eternally torturing people".
gollark: I mean, I suppose you can define it that way, but then it becomes a less useful concept and OH BEE HE HAS COME HERE

References
  1. Amin, Osama. "Never Before Seen: The Belula Pass Rock Relief". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. Cameron, George G. (1936). History of Early Iran (PDF). The University of Chicago Press. p. 41.
  3. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. 1986. pp. 38–39. ISBN 9780521200912.
  4. Edwards, I. E. S.; Gadd, C. J.; Hammond, N. G. L. (1971). The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-521-07791-0.
  5. Amin, Osama. "Never Before Seen: The Belula Pass Rock Relief". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  6. Maspero, G. (Gaston) (1870). Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes. Paris : Libr. Honoré Champion. p. 105.

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