page_title: Anubanini
section_title: Raids on Guthium, Elam, and Babylonian territory
hierarchical_section_title: Anubanini / Raids on Guthium, Elam, and Babylonian territory
caption_attribution_description: English: Anubanini relief constituents prisoner king. See [1]
context_page_description: Anubanini, also Anobanini, was a king of the pre-Iranian tribal kingdom of Lullubi in the Zagros Mountains circa 2300 BCE, or relatively later during the Isin-Larsa period of Mesopotamia, circa 2000-1900 BCE. He is known especially from the Anubanini rock relief, located in Kermanshah Province, Iran.
  According to an inscription, Annubanini seems to have been contemporary with Simurrum king Iddin-Sin. Another well-known Lullubi king is Satuni, who was vanquished by the Mesopotamian king Naram-Sin circa 2250 BCE.
context_section_description: Some later legends, such as the Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin, describe a king Anubanini during the reign of Naram-Sin (c. 2254–2218 BCE), who used to raid the fertile lands of the Babylonian plain from his mountain territory on the eastern frontier. The epic Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin claims Gutium and Elam among the lands raided by the hordes led by Anubanini. According to this account Anubanini was only stopped at the shores of the Persian Gulf.
  "Warriors with bodies of “cave birds”, a race with ravens’ faces (...) in the midst of the Mountain they grew up, came to manhood and acquired their stature. Seven kings, brothers, glorious and noble, their troops numbered 360,000. Their father was Anubanini the king, their mother the queen, Melili was her name. (...) They devastated Gutium and invaded the land of Elam"
  — The Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin (extracts), translation Oliver Gurney.
caption: Depiction of a crown-wearing king, naked, imprisonned by Anubanini. This is possibly a feathered crown as seen on some bronzes of Luristan.[11] Anubanini rock relief.[1]
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