The “Happy Experience” of Tuttul and the Middle Euphrates Tribes in Times of Samsî-Addu. The Years of Relative Autonomy

Abstract

This article is intended to analyze the available textual data in relation to the particular situation of the city of Tuttul, other cities and towns cultural and historically linked to that urban settlement, and the tribes from the Middle Euphrates region, which appear frequently coalesced into the Yamina confederacy, throughout the transition period from the last days of Yahdun-Lîm’s Mari kingdom until the moment when Samsî-Addu achieved effective control over this region by annexing Tuttul to his western domain. The cuneiform texts have been chronologically ordered for the sake of analyzing properly events related to a unique sociopolitical space, which is located on the border with Aleppo’s domain.