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The Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia was an ancient Near East kingdom in Mesopotamia during early 2nd millennium BC, part of the rise of Amorite power in the region. It is largely known from texts found at Mari, Chagar Bazar, Tell Bi’a (Tuttul), and Tell Shemshara. It was bordered on the west by the Yamhad kingdom and on the east by the Eshnunna kingdom, Babylon being a minor power at that time. At the height of its power it controlled a wide swath of Mesopotamia the largest since the fall of the Ur. Its main leadership figures were Shamshi-Adad I and his sons Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad. After a period of decline following the death of Shamshi-Adad I, its territory was largely absorbed by Mari, Yamhad, and Eshnunna leaving a small rump state centered on Ekallatum. The later rulers of the Middle Assyria attempted to make the much earlier Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia a part of the historical backstory for their reign. This type of revisionist history is not unusual and was often practiced by regimes in this period to support their right to rule. The much later literary composition Assyrian King List thought to have been written in the time of Assyrian ruler Ashurnasirpal I mentions the rulers of Upper Mesopotamia and attempts to legitimize this. The Assyrians also rebranded Šamši-Adad as Šamši-Adad I and Išme-Dagan as Išme-Dagan I to fit them into a mythical list of Assyrian rulers.
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