Gutian people
The Guti (/ˈɡuːti/), also known by the derived exonyms Gutians or Guteans, were a people of the ancient Near East who both appeared and disappeared during the Bronze Age.
[3] By the mid 1st millennium BCE, use of the name "Gutium", by the people of lowland Mesopotamia, was extended to include all foreigners from northwestern Iran, between the Zagros Mountains and the Tigris River.
[5] Little is known of the origins, material culture or language of the Guti, as contemporary sources provide few details and no artifacts have been positively identified.
[16] During the Akkadian Empire period the Gutians slowly grew in strength and then established a capital at the Early Dynastic city of Adab.
[17] The Gutians eventually overran Akkad, and as the King List tells us, their army also subdued Uruk for hegemony of Sumer, in about 2147~2050 BCE.
The Weidner Chronicle (written c. 500 BCE), portrays the Gutian kings as uncultured and uncouth: Naram-Sin destroyed the people of Babylon, so twice Marduk summoned the forces of Gutium against him.
Gutium, the fanged snake of the mountain ranges, a people who acted violently against the gods, people who the kingship of Sumer to the mountains took away, who Sumer with wickedness filled, who from one with a wife his wife took away from him, who from one with a child his child took away from him, who produced wickedness and violence within the country ..."Following this, Ur-Nammu of Ur ordered the destruction of Gutium.
