The King of Idu

There hasn't been much archaeology in Kurdistan over the past few decades, given all the political instability. But recently work has resumed, and now some results are being announced from a site called Satu Qala. Beneath a village still bearing the scars of an assault by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1987 are the remains of a city known around 1000 BCE as Idu:

The city thrived between 3,300 and 2,900 years ago, said Cinzia Pappi, an archaeologist at the Universität Leipzig in Germany. At the start of this period, the city was under the control of the Assyrian Empire and was used to administer the surrounding territory. Later on, as the empire declined, the city gained its independence and became the center of a kingdom that lasted for about 140 years, until the Assyrians reconquered it.

The inscription surrounding this reassembled sphinx says, Palace of Ba'auri, king of the land of Idu, son of Edima, also king of the land of Idu.

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