Hamazi
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Hamazi (or Khamazi) era un antico regno o città-stato di una certa importanza, che raggiunse il suo apice nel 2500-2400 aC. La sua esatta localizzazione è sconosciuta, ma si pensa che possa essere ad ovest dei monti Zagros approssimativamente tra Elam e l'Assiria, in particolare vicino a Nuzi o alla moderna Hamadan.
Hamazi ebbe per la prima volta l'attenzione degli archeologi con la scoperta di un vaso con un'iscrizione in un'alfabeto cuneiforme molto arcaico, che commemorava la vittoria di Utug (or Uhub), uno dei primi re di Kish, over this place, causing fringe theorist Laurence Waddell in 1929 to speculate that it was to be identified with Carchemish in Syria. It is now generally considered to have been somewhere in the vicinity of the Diyala.
One of the earliest references to Hamazi is found in the epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, where it is mentioned in an incantation about the confusion of languages in the various lands at the time of the building of the ziggurats in Eridu and Uruk.
According to the Sumerian king list, king Hadanish of Hamazi held hegemony over Sumer after defeating Kish, but was in turn defeated by Enshakushanna of Uruk.
A clay tablet found in the archives at Ebla in Syria bears a copy of a diplomatic message sent from king Irkab-Damu of Ebla to king Zizi of Hamazi, along with a large quantity of wood, hailing him as a brother, and requesting him to send mercenaries in exchange.
Hamazi was one of the provinces of Ur under the reign of Amar-Sin during the "Sumerian renaissance"[1]; two governors or ensis during this reign were named Lu-nanna son of Namhani, and Ur-Ishkur. In ca. 2010 BC, the province was occupied and plundered by Ishbi-Erra of Isin as the Ur-III empire was collapsing.
