Lullubi
Lullubi, Lulubi (Akkadian: 𒇻𒇻𒉈: Lu-lu-bi, Akkadian: 𒇻𒇻𒉈𒆠: Lu-lu-biki "Country of the Lullubi"), more commonly known as Lullu, were a group of Bronze Age tribes during the 3rd millennium BC, from a region known as Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of the Zagros Mountains of modern-day Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. Lullubi was neighbour and sometimes ally with the Hurrian Simurrum kingdom. Frayne (1990) identified their city Lulubuna or Luluban with the region's modern town of Halabja.
Lullubi Kingdom 𒇻𒇻𒉈𒆠| |
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3100 BC–675 BC | |
Territory of the Lullubi in the Mesopotamia area. | |
Common languages | Unclassified (Lullubian?) Akkadian (inscriptions) |
Religion | Mesopotamian religions |
Government | Monarchy |
Historical era | Antiquity |
• Established | 3100 BC |
• Disestablished | 675 BC |
Today part of | Iraq Iran |
The language of the Lullubi is regarded as an unclassified language because it is unattested. The term Lullubi though, appears to be of Hurrian origin rather than Semitic or the yet to arrive in the region Indo-European, and the names of its known rulers have Hurrian or more rarely Semitic influence.