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Sumur
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The location of Zimyra/Sumur (in the north)
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Alternative nameSumura, Zemar, etc.
Location Syria
Region Tartus Governorate
Coordinates 34°42′29″N35°59′10″E / 34.7081°N 35.9861°E / 34.7081; 35.9861
An ancient Phoenician coin of Simyra Monnaie - Hemidrachme, argent, Phenicie, Simyra - btv1b10322944n (2 of 2).jpg
An ancient Phoenician coin of Simyra

Sumur (Biblical Hebrew: צְמָרִי‎ [collective noun denoting the city inhabitants]; Egyptian: Smr; Akkadian: Sumuru; Assyrian: Simirra) was a Phoenician city in what is now Syria. It was a major trade center. The city has also been referred to in English publications as Simyra, [1] Ṣimirra, Ṣumra, [2] Sumura, [3] Ṣimura, [4] Zemar, [5] and Zimyra. [6]

Sumur (or "Sumura") appears in the Amarna letters (mid-14th century BCE); Ahribta is named as its ruler. It was under the guardianship of Rib-Addi, king of Byblos, but was conquered by Abdi-Ashirta's expanding kingdom of Amurru. Pro-Egyptian factions may have seized the city again, but Abdi-Ashirta's son, Aziru, recaptured Sumur. Sumur became the capital of Amurru. [7]

It is likely, although not completely certain, that the "Sumur" of the Amarna letters is the same city later known as "Simirra." [8] Simirra was claimed as part of the Assyrian empire by Tiglath-Pileser III in 738 BCE, but rebelled against Assyria in 721 at the beginning of the reign of Sargon II. [9]

It has been linked by Maurice Dunand and N. Salisby to the archaeological site of Tell Kazel in 1957. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Archibald Henry Sayce (1903). The Hittites: the story of a forgotten empire. The Religious Tract Society. p. 164.
  2. ↑ Oded Lipschitz (2005). The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah Under Babylonian Rule. Eisenbrauns. p. 5. ISBN   978-1-57506-095-8.
  3. ↑ Shlomo Izre'el; Itamar Singer; Ran Zadok (1998). Past Links: Studies in the Languages and Cultures of the Ancient Near East. Eisenbrauns. p. 393. ISBN   978-1-57506-035-4.
  4. ↑ Niels Peter Lemche (1 March 1991). The Canaanites and Their Land: The Tradition of the Canaanites. A&C Black. p. 78. ISBN   978-1-85075-310-0.
  5. ↑ Archibald Henry Sayce (1895). Patriarchal Palestine. Library of Alexandria. p. 24. ISBN   978-1-4655-5042-2.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  6. ↑ I. E. S. Edwards; C. J. Gadd; N. G. L. Hammond; E. Sollberger (3 May 1973). The Cambridge Ancient History . Cambridge University Press. p.  863. ISBN   978-0-521-08230-3.
  7. ↑ Trevor Bryce. The Kingdom of the Hittites . p. 182.
  8. ↑ Trevor Bryce (10 September 2009). The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia. Routledge. p. 672. ISBN   978-1-134-15907-9.
  9. ↑ Trevor Bryce (10 September 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. Routledge. p. 654. ISBN   978-1-134-15907-9.
  10. ↑ Badre, Leila., Tell Kazel-Simyra: A Contribution to a Relative Chronological History in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2006.
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