Bit Amukani
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thumb|350px|Bit-Amukkani among the Chaldean states in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BCE.Bit-Amukani (in the Aramaic Assur Ostracon ʾwkn; Assyrian mA-muk-ka-nu; Babylonian diBit U-ka-a-ni, diU-ka-nu; lit. House of Amukani) was a tribe, proto-state founded by Chaldeans in southern Mesopotamia which stretched from southeast of Nippur to the area of Uruk. It is considered to have been one of the most powerful Chaldean tribes, next to Bīt-Iakin and Bīt-Dakkūri.
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- List of Bīt-Amūkāni leaders
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thumb|350px|Bit-Amukkani among the Chaldean states in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BCE.Bit-Amukani (in the Aramaic Assur Ostracon ʾwkn; Assyrian mA-muk-ka-nu; Babylonian diBit U-ka-a-ni, diU-ka-nu; lit. House of Amukani) was a tribe, proto-state founded by Chaldeans in southern Mesopotamia which stretched from southeast of Nippur to the area of Uruk. It is considered to have been one of the most powerful Chaldean tribes, next to Bīt-Iakin and Bīt-Dakkūri.
As early as 732 BCE, it was ruled by prince Ukinzer (also known as Mukin-zeri or Nabu-mukin-zeri) who became a king of Babylon in 732 BCE instead of Nabu-shum-ukin II whom he superseded. Later, Tiglath-pileser III devastated Bit-Amukani for the second time and defeated Mukin-zeri. Shalmaneser III (856-824) inscriptions note that two Chaldean leaders (Mušallim-Marduk of Bīt-Amukāni and Adīnu of Bīt-Dakkūri) carried silver, gold, tin, bronze, elephant tusks, elephant skins, ebony and sissoowood (or meskannu wood) as a tribute to the King of Assyria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bit Amukani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.