Abstract
Several sources provide us with information on the early reign of Samsī-Addu before the capture of Mari, such as the eponymous Chronicles of Mari, the Assyrian KingList ( AKL) or a few rare documents from Aššur, Tell Leilan (the ancient Šehnā/Šubat-Enlil) or Tell Taya (ancient name uncertain), cf. D. Lacambre, Mélanges Charpin, 2019, p. 513-542. We know that the historical data we know today from the Amorite period was lost, misunderstood or reinterpreted in the MedioAssyrian and Neo-Assyrian periods. Thus, for example, the two eponyms that date the capture of Ekallātum and then Aššur by Samsī-Addu in the Assyrian royal list are not attested among the lists of eponyms found, notably those discovered at Kültepe, the ancient Kaneš(Kültepe Eponym List or KEL). The aim of this paper is to review these data in order to better understand the chronology of the stages leading up to the establishment of the kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia by Samsī-Addu at the beginning of the XVIIIth century BC.
