The Gambulu, Gambulai,
or Gambuli
were a tribe of
Arameans in ancient
Babylonia.
They were the most powerful tribe along the eastern border of Babylonia,
or in the south toward the border with
Elam.
It is difficult to pinpoint their exact location.
H. W. F. Saggs places them "south of the
Diyala river toward the Elamite border."
When Assyrian king
Sargon II (722-705) waged war against them in the city of
Dur-Athara, 18,430 were deported.
The Gambulu, along with the
Puqudu
The term Puqudu or Piqudu (or in the Bible, Peqod) refers to a prominent Aramean tribe and its associated region in southernSaggs, H. W. F.The Nimrud Letters 1952: Part III." ''Iraq'', vol. 18, no. 1, 1956, pp. 53. JSTOR. or eastern Babylonia. Th ...
, continued to be politically important as far as the sixth century.
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Arameans
Aramean tribes
Aramean states
Ancient peoples of the Near East