2057 BC

Map 30: 2057 BC. Previous map: **2060 BC**. Next map: **2054 BC** (*Maps Index*)

**PONTOS**
***Pelasgi***
**Cureta**
***W. Pel.***
**`Aratta**
**Caspian Saga**
***Alani***
**Tegarama**
**`Ariana**
***Massagetae***
**TURDETANIA**
**SCYTHIA**
**Lul.**
***Galli***
**SAMOTHEA**
**YAWANA**
**AFRICA**
**Getulia**
**Moesia**
**PALA**
**SARMATIA**
***Rifati***
**AEG.**
**Withelsleth**
**Alashia**
**Hedua**
**RAZENUA**
**Saturnia**
**Trinacria**
**Hyr.**
**FOMOIRE**
**PARTH.**
**BITHYNIA**
**TREBETA**
**GOTHICA**
**Sued.**
***AISTONES***
***FENNONES***
**Ascania**
**Ingebonis**
**Ustabonis**
**Carmania**
**Postandis**
**Mari**
**TRACIA**
**Aus.**
**INA.**
**AWAN**
**KANAAN**
**Amurru**
**Liguria**
**Cimb.**
**GERMANIA**
**Brigantia**
**Jadera**
**Sala**
**Dalm.**
**Epirus**
**Emathia**
**Thess.**
**ACTE**
**AKK.**
**GERY.**
**Khet.**
**TA WASET**
**Senar**
**ZALP.**
**Leb.**
**Paran**
**Arame**
**Shus.**
**Gut.**
**Subartu**
**LUWIA**
**Hat.**
**Bur.**
**Ka.**
**Ku.**
2057 BC - PEAK OF SARGON'S EMPIRE

## MAIN EVENTS

### c. 2059-2057 BC - Apis travels in Arabia

Around this time, Pharaoh Osiris Apis Mentuhotep crossed the Red Sea from Kush into Saba and began his tour of Asia; in addition every country he entered with his entourage acknowledged him as sovereign as he continued up the coast. Back in Egypt, Antef / Typhon II succeeded Typhon I in Thebes as acting Pharaoh in 2058 BC, but he did not control all of the squabbling nomes in practice.

### 2058 BC - Sargon campaigns in Hatti

In 2058 BC, in response to complaints of injustices reaching him from Akkadian merchants in Hatti at the hands of king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, Sargon of Akkad conquered Hatti including Burushanda and Kanesh; by this time he had also added several more territories to his Empire including Arame (Haran). This was the peak of his Empire; Sargon died the following year and his successor Rimush soon found all his newly conquered lands in rebellion, seizing the opportunity to throw off the Akkadian yoke.

The SKL variants give Sargon a 54, 55, or 56 year reign, and an older copy, published in AD 2003 says he ruled 40 years. Some modern scholars think it originally said 37 years. However the SKL is generally unreliable for reign lengths. In a supposedly autobiographical text, he says "I ruled [...]4 years" where the tens number is effaced. It is from Sargon that the earliest "year names" were found, but only four are known from his whole reign. In my reconstruction, 14 years seems sufficient for his career of rapid conquest, because of the small number of actual year-names, and because this was a time when more kings died in battle than didn't die in battle, so it would not at all be unusual for a rapacious conqueror who lived by the sword. Two other chronicles describe his fate: his people rebelling against him while he was stricken with seizures, said to be punishment from the idol Marduk for Sargon's moving the main pagan temple from Nippur to the new Babylon he had built near Akkad, on soil brought from the original Eridu.

### c. 2057 BC - Longho of Samothea recovers part of Trebeta

In 2057 BC, Marsus succeeded Herminon in Germany, with his capital at Marsburg. Around this time Longho, who had succeeded Bardus in Samothea in 2068 BC, managed to recover parts of Trebeta west of the Meuse for Samothea, where he founded Langres and Namur. De Plancy claimed that such items as chariots, cutlery and mattresses were produced under Longho's reign.