Introduction

Around the time Heinrich Schlieman made his legendary discoveries at Troy another German archaeological team was breaking ground in Ottoman Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). At Zinjirli, a site further east near the border of what is now Syria they unearthed the remains of the capital city of the Aramean kings of Yaudy, known in Assyrian sources as Sam’al. A line of eleven Aramean kings ruled this formerly Luwian city state from the early 900s to 713 B.C.E. Monumental inscriptions of four of these kings have survived beginning with the fifth king of the dynasty, Kilamuwa.

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