Abarsal was a city-state of Mesopotamia in the area of the Euphrates. Very little is known of the history of the town and the site is unidentified at the moment. It could be the city of Aburru mentioned in various texts of the tablets of Mari, which was located south of Emar to Qalat Gabir. A second theory says that could be Apishal.
About 2420 BC, King Iblul-Il was called King of Mari Abarsal. Vizier of Ebla Ibrium (24th-century BC) campaigned against the city of Abarsal during the time of vizier Arrukum.
The Treaty between Ebla and Abarsal has been discovered in Ebla archives.
References
- Textos para un Historia política de Siria-Palestina, per Joan Oliva.
- Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels (2003). Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. p. 462.
- Mario Liverani (2013). The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. p. 119.
Further reading
- Archi, A., "The Chronology of Ebla and Synchronisms with Abarsal, Tuttul, Nagar and Nabada, Mari, Kish", In W. Sallaberger and I. Schrakamp (eds.): ARCANE. Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3: History & Philology. Brepols. Turnhout, pp. 163‒179, 2015
- Archi, A., "La ville d’Abarsal", in M. Lebeau and Ph. Talon (eds.): Reflets des deux fleuves. Mélanges offerts à André Finet. Peeters. Louvain, pp. 15‑19, 1989
- Fuensanta, Jesús Gil, Alfredo Mederos Martín, and Otabek Uktamovich Muminov, "On the Northern frontier of the Ebla Kingdom during the Early Bronze Age IVA. The Birecik Valley and the Kingdom of Abarsal in the left bank of the Middle Turkish Euphrates", Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 50.1, pp. 81-107, 2024