Diniktum


Diniktum, inscribed Di-ni-ik-tumKI, was a middle bronze-age town located somewhere in the lower Diyala region of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris river downstream from Upi and close to the northern border of Elam. It is possibly at or in the vicinity of Tell Muḥammad, which lies in south-eastern part of modern Baghdad.
It is mentioned in the Harmal geographical list.

History

It enjoyed independence briefly during the 18th century under the reigns of the Amorite chieftains Itur-šarrum, attested on a single seal from Ešnunna, and Sîn-gāmil, son of Sîn-šēmi and a contemporary of Zimri-Lim of Mari and Ḫammu-rapī of Babylon. In an old Babylonian letter from Yarim-Lim I, the king of Iamḫad whose capital was Halab, ancient Aleppo, to the Yašub-Yahad, the king of Dēr, he says:
Ikūn-pî-Sîn, the ruler of Nērebtum and possibly Tutub, cities in the sphere of Ešnunna, has a year name: “Year when Ikū-pî-Sîn captured Diniktum." It was absorbed into the kingdom of Ešnunna and consequently embroiled in its conflicts with Elam during the reigns of Ibāl-pî-El II and Ṣillī-Sîn. The town was still settled in the later bronze-age, as a year name gives ““the year Kadašman-Ḫarbe, the king, dug the canal of Diniktum.” Kadašman-Ḫarbe was a Kassite king of Babylon of the late 15th century.