Mushki

The Mushki ( muski, Mu -us -ki, KURMuš -ka- a- ia) were an ancient oriental people on the upper Euphrates.

History

The first mention of muski can be found in the annals of the Assyrian king Tiglath- pileser I ( 1114-1076 BC ), the first campaign was directed against the Mushki, occupied the Assyrian territory on the upper Euphrates had ( Annals ). They had settled in Alzi and Purulumzi, the fertile hill country between the source of the western arm of the Tigris and the river loop at Amedi, the later " Assyrian Triangle" for 50 years, according to the annals of 20,000 men under five kings. Tiglath- pileser crossed the mountain Kaššiari and brought the muski in the Battle of Mount Kaschiari a crushing defeat at. Under Assur- nirari III. fell muski after Hanilgabat, but the Hurrians were able to keep in Katmuhi and Paphu.

In Hittite texts the Mushki are not mentioned. Further evidence can be found in neo- Assyrian sources. Sargon II ( 721-705 BC) mentions a king named MITA. This Mushki are usually equated with the Phrygians or Mysern in Anatolia. Thus, some authors consider the Mushki for the destroyers of the Hittite empire, like other so-called Sea Peoples or the Kaskäer. The Bryger, according to Herodotus, a company based in Thrace people are considered.

Moschoi

Often the Mushki with the ancient Moschoi ( Μόσχοι ) Greek sources are set equal to the settlement area but much further north-west, lay on the Black Sea. Josephus Flavius ​​identified the Moschoi with the Biblical Meshech.

Bible

1897 Morris Jastrow sat by the University of Philadelphia, the muski ( he prefers the reading Muski ) of the Inscriptions of Khorsabad and the annals of Sargon with the Biblical Meshech equal and assumed that it was in the Taurus Mountains.

In the Table of Nations of Genesis 10, 23 and 1 Chronicles 1, 17 from the tribe of Shem as sons of Aram and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash (Mas) are called. Traditionally applies Masch as the progenitor of the Aramean people of Tur Abdin. Thus, the time of Tiglath - pileser the Mushki were a local Aramaic tribe and had nothing to do with the Moschoi.

Kings

  • Five Kings ( TP I)
  • Mita ( Sargon )
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