Taite (called ''Ta'idu'' in Assyrian sources) was one of the capitals of the
Mitanni
Mitanni (–1260 BC), earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts, ; Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian records, or in Ancient Egypt, Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian language, Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria (region), Syria an ...
Empire. Its exact location is still unknown, although it is speculated to be in the
Khabur region. The site of
Tall Al-Hamidiya has recently been proposed as the location of ancient Taite. Tell Farfara and the Anatolian site of
Üçtepe Höyük has also been suggested, among others. It has also been proposed that there two settlements name Ta'idu in the region.
During the Fall of the Mitanni Empire, the conquering Assyrian ruler
Adad-Nirari (1307–1275 BC or 1295–1263 BC) slaughtered the inhabitants. He sowed the grounds with salt. He later reports restoring the capital city Taidu.
[Thames, John Tracy, "International Politics and Local Change at Emar in the Late Bronze Age" ,Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 23-52, 2023]
See also
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Cities of the ancient Near East
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by ...
References
Further reading
*Kessler, Karlheinz, "Neue Tontafelfunde aus dem mitannizeitlichen Taidu – Ein Vorbericht", in The Archaeology of Political Spaces: The Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BCE, edited by Dominik Bonatz, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 35-42, 2014
External links
Swiss excavations at Tell al-Hamidiya
Archaeological sites in al-Hasakah Governorate
Hurrian cities
Former populated places in West Asia
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