Shaushtatar
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Shaushtatar, also spelled Šauštatar [1], was a king of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni in the fifteenth century BC.
Shaushtatar was the son of Barattarna /Parsatatar and his seal was found in a letter from the archive of Nuzi. In a treaty made more than a century later Shaushtatar is told to have sacked Assur, the Assyrian capital. He is reputed to have brought the golden doors of the palace to his own capital of Washshukanni.
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- ^ Speiser, E.A., Introduction to Hurrian, p. 10. American Schools of Oriental Research, New Haven. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. 20. 1941.; Martiros S. Kavoukjian's The Genesis of Armenian People, Montreal, 1982; Hovick Nersessian, "Armenian Highland," Los Angeles, 2000, (New York Academy of Sciences professor)
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