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Mut-bisir or Mutu-bisir (fl. 19th century BC) was a senior military official to the Amorite king
Shamshi-Adad I Shamshi-Adad ( akk, Šamši-Adad; Amorite: ''Shamshi-Addu''), ruled 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.Some of the Mari letters addressed to Shamsi-Ad ...
. His name appears repeatedly in the Mari letters, and means "man of Bishri", referring to the desert region around the Jebel Bishri.Cinzia Pappi (2006).
The Jebel Bishri in the Physical and Cultural Landscape of the Ancient Near East
. ''Kaskal'', Volume 3. p. 248.
In these letters, Anson Rainey describes him as "frequently mentioned in connection with troops located near the Euphrates." In one such letter, from Mut-bisir to Shamshi-Adad, he was the first recorded individual to refer to Canaanites by name (in Akkadian, ''Kinaḥnum''). In this letter, Mut-bisir describes his own soldiers and opposing Canaanite forces as tensely watching one another.Anson F. Rainey (1979). "Toponymic Problems (cont.)", ''Tel Aviv'', 6:3-4, 158-162, DOI: 10.1179/033443579788441172. p. 158. His residence in Mari seems to have eventually been given to Shibti, the daughter of Shamshi-Adad, and this household became a major supplier of foods to the royal palace.


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