Mara-Il is the only king of
Nagar known by name, and the first known historical figure from the
Jezirah region. Most of the texts record the ruler of Nagar using his title "
En", without mentioning a name. Only in Ebla was a name mentioned: Mara-Il; he ruled a little more than a generation before Nagar's destruction c. 2300 BC, and was most probably the "En" recorded in other texts, including the ones from
Nabada.
Amar-AN
An inscription from Mari records a certain Amar-
AN of the land of Nagar, and he could be identical to Mara-Il (whose name in Ebla was written ma-ra-
AN). Four scholars,
Marco Bonechi,
Amalia Catagnoti,
Maria Vittoria Tonietti and
Walther Sallaberger
Walther Sallaberger (born 3 April 1963 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian Assyriologist.
From 1982 to 1988, Walther Sallaberger studied languages and cultures of the ancient Near East as well as classical archeology at the University of Innsbruck. He ...
, suggested a tentative relation between the element Amar and the element Ma-ra but both Catagnoti and Tonietti admit to the difficulty of this identification and have reservations.
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24th-century BC rulers
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