Kazalla
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Kazalla is the name given in Akkadian sources to a possibly-legendary city in the ancient Near East. Under its king Kashtubila, Kazalla warred against Sargon of Akkad in the 24th or 23rd century BCE. Sargon laid the city of Kazalla to waste so effectively that "the birds could not find a place to perch away from the ground."[1]
According to a tablet from the reign of Gudea of Lagash, Kazalla was located somewhere to the west of Mesopotamia, in the land of Martu.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Oppenheim 266.
[edit] References
- Howorth, Henry H. "The Later Rulers of Shirpurla or Lagash (Continued)". The English Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 66 (Apr., 1902), pp. 209-234
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- Oppenheim, A. Leo (translator). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3d ed. James B. Pritchard, ed. Princeton: University Press, 1969.
