{{more footnotes|date=November 2018}} '''Belassunu''' ({{floruit}} {{circa|1780–1770 BC}}) was a [[princess]] of Karana (modern day [[Tell al-Rimah]]).
==History== Belassunu was the daughter of [[Samu-addu]], King of Karana, perhaps by his wife [[Ama-duga]], and she was sister to Queen [[Iltani]], wife of the [[usurper]] King [[Aqba-Hammu]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eidem |first=Jesper |date=1989 |title=Some Remarks on the Iltani Archive from Tell al Rimah |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4200296 |journal=Iraq |volume=51 |pages=67–78 |doi=10.2307/4200296 |jstor=4200296 |issn=0021-0889|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Details of Belassunu's life are known from surviving letters from the former royal [[archive]] at [[Tell-el-Rimah]]. She was the wife of [[Abdu-Suri]] to whom she bore children. This marriage appears to have been unhappy, as she was ill-treated by her husband, as recorded in letters preserved as clay tablets discovered by archaeologists amongst the [[Iltani]] archive.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sasson |first1=Jack M. |last2=Dalley |first2=Stephanie |last3=Walker |first3=C. B. F. |last4=Hawkins |first4=J. D. |date=October 1980 |title=The Old Babylonian Tablets from Al-Rimah |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/602090 |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=453 |doi=10.2307/602090 |jstor=602090 |issn=0003-0279|hdl=1803/3618 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Sasson |first=Jack M. |date=April 1973 |title=Biographical Notices on Some Royal Ladies from Mari |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1359419 |journal=Journal of Cuneiform Studies |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=59–78 |doi=10.2307/1359419 |jstor=1359419 |issn=0022-0256|hdl=1803/3583 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Page |first=Stephanie |date=1968 |title=The Tablets from Tell Al-Rimah 1967: A Preliminary Report |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4199841 |journal=Iraq |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=87–97 |doi=10.2307/4199841 |jstor=4199841 |issn=0021-0889|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This mistreatment was such that she did not wish to live with her husband, and requested to move to the court of her brother in law.<ref name=":0" /> The assertion that Belassunu had been a secondary wife to [[Zimrilim]], king of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]] has now been proved incorrect.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
While residing in the city of Karana she was the recipient of royal rations of meat and oil, and she paid visits to the cities of Mari and [[Andarig]]. Eventually she retired to her father's court at Karana, being escorted there under the protection of her brother-in-law Aqba-Hammu.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
==References== {{Reflist}} * B.F. Batto, ''Women at Mari'' (1974)
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