{{Infobox royalty | name = Hanun-Dagan | succession = [[List of kings of Mari|King of Mari]] | reign = c. 2017 – c. 2008 BC | predecessor = [[Hitlal-Erra]] | successor = | death_date = c. 2008 BC | father = [[Puzur-Ishtar]] }}
'''Hanun-Dagan''' (meaning "[[Dagon|Dagan]] is merciful"; died {{Circa}} 2008 BC),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IN9_IRYKKUMC&pg=PA60|title= The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria|author=Lluís Feliu|page= 60|year=2003|isbn= 9004131582}}</ref> was the [[Shakkanakku]] and king ([[Lugal]]) of [[Mari, Syria|Mari]], reigning c. 2016-2008 BC.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klZX8B_RzzYC&pg=PT690|title=Ancient Iraq|author=Georges Roux|page= 690|year=1992|isbn=9780141938257}}</ref> He was the brother of his predecessor [[Hitlal-Erra]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAGFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|title= Who's Who in the Ancient Near East|author=Gwendolyn Leick|page= 86|year=2002|isbn= 9781134787968}}</ref> and is recorded as the son of Shakkanakku [[Puzur-Ishtar]] on a seal discovered in the city.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAGFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|title= Who's Who in the Ancient Near East|author=Gwendolyn Leick|page= 67|year=2002|isbn= 9781134787968}}</ref> Although the title of Shakkanakku designated a military governor,<ref name="eblai5">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rwals-oh6kC&pg=PA64|title= Eblaitica vol.4|author1=Cyrus Herzl Gordon |author2=Gary Rendsburg |author3=Nathan H. Winter |page=64|year= 2002|isbn= 9781575060606}}</ref> the title holders in Mari were independent monarchs,<ref name="toro">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1aF0hq1GR8C&pg=PA451|title= The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire|author= Trevor Bryce|page= 451|year=2009|isbn= 9781134159086}}</ref> and nominally under the vassalage of the [[Ur III]] dynasty.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8Z7AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|title= Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History|author= Trevor Bryce|page= 18|year=2014|isbn= 9780191002922}}</ref> Some Shakkanakkus used the royal title [[Lugal]] in their votive inscriptions, while using the title of Shakkanakku in their correspondence with the Ur's court,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rwals-oh6kC&pg=PA132|title= Eblaitica vol.4|author1=Cyrus Herzl Gordon |author2=Gary Rendsburg |author3=Nathan H. Winter |page= 132|year=2002|isbn= 9781575060606}}</ref> and it is certain that Hanun-Dagan used the royal title.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MM3SJvJgGKoC&pg=PA91|title= Textos para un historia política de Siria-Palestina I|language= es|author= Juan Oliva|page= 91|year=2008|isbn= 9788446019497}}</ref>
Hanun-Dagan was a contemporary of [[Ibbi-Sin]] of [[Third Dynasty of Ur|Ur]],<ref name="lugal">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2nUT_RtyQ8C&pg=PA593|title= Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC)|author=Douglas Frayne|page= 593|year=1990|isbn= 9780802058737}}</ref> and is credited with renovating the [[Royal Palace of Mari]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SKYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT987|title= The Sumerian World|author=Harriet Crawford|author-link=Harriet Crawford|page= 987|year=2013|isbn= 9781136219115}}</ref> Unlike most of their predecessors who bore [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] names, both Hanun-Dagan and his brother Hitlal-Erra bore [[Amorite language|Amorite]] names,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiHwDe7JmCEC&pg=PA22|title= Letters to the King of Mari: A New Translation, with Historical Introduction, Notes, and Commentary |author=Wolfgang Heimpel|page= 22|year=2003|isbn= 9781575060804 }}</ref> and seals in Mari records Hitlal-Erra as a military official under Puzur-Ishtar, leading [[Piotr Michalowski (scholar)|Piotr Michalowski]] to suspect a coup that deposed the family of Puzur-Ishtar and replaced it with Hanun-Dagan's family.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvE2nQEACAAJ|title= 2000 v. Chr. Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung im Zeichen einer Jahrtausendwende: 3. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 4.-7. April 2004 in Frankfurt/Main und Marburg/Lahn - The Ideological Foundations of the Ur III State|author= Piotr Michalowski|page= 233|year=2004|isbn= 9783930843855}}</ref> The succession of Shakkanakkus following Hanun-Dagan's reign is difficult to determine as the lists are full of gaps.<ref name="lugal" />
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