Anubanini

 ( 3rd-millennium Bc Births ) 

Anubanini, also Anobanini (: An-nu-ba-ni-ni; ), was a Chief (Lugal Šàr, pronounced Shar) of the pre-Iranian peoples tribal kingdom of Lullubi in the Zagros Mountains circa 2300 BC,

or relatively later during the Isin-Larsa period of Mesopotamia, circa 2000-1900 BC.

(1990). 9780802058737, University of Toronto Press. . ISBN 9780802058737

He is known especially from the Anubanini rock relief, located in Kermanshah Province, Iran.

(1999). 9780521564960, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9780521564960

According to an inscription, Annubanini seems to have been contemporary with Simurrum king Iddin-Sin.

Another well-known Lullubi chief is Satuni, who was vanquished by the Mesopotamian king Naram-Sin around 2250 BC.

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Anubanini rock relief In this rock relief, Anubanini, the king of the Lullubi, puts his foot on the chest of a captive. There are 8 other captives, two of them kneeled behind the Lullubian equivalent of the Akkadian goddess Ishtar (recognisable by the four pairs of horns on her headdress and the weapons over her shoulders) and six of them standing in a lower row at the bottom of the rock relief. He is faced by goddess Nini/Innana/Ishtar, and it is thought that he may have claimed divinity, like several rulers after the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur.

(2026). 9781501504778, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. . ISBN 9781501504778

This rock relief is very similar to the Behistun Inscription and may have influenced it.

In the inscription in Akkadian script and language, he declares himself as the mighty king of Lullubium, who had set up his image as well as that of Ishtar on mount Batir, and calls on various deities to preserve his monument:

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Raids on Guthium, Elam, and Babylonian territory

Some later legends, such as the Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin, describe a king Anubanini during the reign of Naram-Sin (c. 2254–2218 BCE), who used to raid the fertile lands of the Babylonian plain from his mountain territory on the eastern frontier. The epic Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin claims Gutium and Elam among the lands raided by the hordes led by Anubanini.

(2026). 9781351260428, Routledge. . ISBN 9781351260428

(1970). 9780521077910, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9780521077910

(2026). 9783110037050, W. de Gruyter. . ISBN 9783110037050

According to this account Anubanini was only stopped at the shores of the Persian Gulf.

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Depictions

Anubanini Rock Relief 1.jpg||alt=Original relief. Anubanini_relief_components.jpg| File:Anubanini relief constituents King Anubanini portrait.jpg|Portrait of king Anubanini File:Annubanini.jpg|The name Annubanini as it appears at the beginning of the Anubanini rock relief inscription file:Lulu king 2.jpg| Drawing- Queen Lulubian from the relief of Sarpolzahab. The second half of the third millennium BC.

Categories: 3rd-millennium Bc Births, 3rd-millennium Bc Deaths

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