Gutian people

Gutium ( Akkadian Kuti - in, Gutebu - order, Babylonian Gutu - order, Guti - u) is the name of the country Guti is (country name in the singular, neuassyrisch Guti, neubabylonisch Quteu ), a region in the Iranian plateau and in the valleys of the Zagros Mountains. According to another view, the name of the country Kut, the attached / - ī / Akkadian Nisbe and / to / the Akkadian nominative. In the form ' Kut - ī - to ' the name was then transferred to the Sumerian. About the history of Gutian there are few sources.

Origin

The eponymous founder of the Gutian Dynasty was Harhar.

To 2191 BC " Gutian " immigrant whose previous settlement area can not be determined with certainty ( was adopted, inter alia, the northern Luristan ), in the Osttigrisland and took control in Akkad to 2116 BC should continue. Through a joint military action of Sumer and Akkad, the former nomads were driven back into the mountains. Some of them were incorporated into the society of the lowlands, such as in Ashur. Reliefs dating from around 1100 BC show regular military operations against the Guti.

The Lulubi (also Lullubu or Lullubäer ), a warlike tribe, should also come from the valleys of the Zagros mountain range and are believed to be counted among the Gutäern.

The location of Gutium changed throughout history and in each case the districts that were not under the control of the respective rulers. Respect, no fixed position is assumed for Gutium, but it is understood as a synonym for Wandering mountain people. Quti or Guti is used in the first millennium in general for the inhabitants of the Iranian plateau.

End

Later, the Gutians of the Kassites, then displaced by Iranian tribes, eventually they disappeared without a trace. The historical assessment of the Gutian is mostly negative. After Bottero have the Gutian

" Caused much destruction, and as far as we see, leave nothing positive, nothing built and brought nothing original to Mesopotamia. "