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Gutian, n. and a.|ˈguːtɪən|
A. n. A member of a mountain people who lived c 2500–2000 b.c. in the area of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
[1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 159/2 We now find that at the dawn of history the mountains overhanging Assyria were held by a people named Gútú, a title which signified ‘a warrior’.] 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East i. 19 The Gutians, the Kassites, the Chaldæans and the Persians. 1929C. J. Gadd Hist. & Monuments of Ur iii. 99 Throughout all the years filled by the end of the Agade dynasty and the Gutian tyranny hardly anything is known concerning the fortunes of Ur. 1960tr. S. Moscati's Face of Ancient Orient ii. 25 Then the Gutians, savage people from the East, spread destruction far and wide, and earn themselves the name of ‘mountain dragons’ (about 2150–2050 b.c.). 1971W. W. Hallo in Reallexikon der Assyriologie 716/2 By the end of the Old Babylonian period, the term ‘Gutian’ was of little more than vague geographic or ethnic significance. Ibid. 719/1 The earliest contemporary references to Gutium..seem to place it, or persons designated as Gutians, in the mid-Euphrates area, in company with Amorites... In the Old Babylonian period, persons identified as Gutian, or bearing ‘Gutian’ names are attested throughout northern Mesopotamia and Assyria. |