Hassum (also given as Khashshum, Ḫaššum, Hassu, Hassuwa or Hazuwan) was a Hurrian city-state,[1] located in southern Turkey most probably on the Euphrates river north of Carchemish.
[6] According to Archi (2011), Hassuwan can be identified with "Tilbeshar (south of Gaziantep, on the latitude of Karkamiš), a tell presenting the typical morphology of a great Middle Bronze Age city".
[12] In the course of his war against Yamhad, Hattusili I of the Hittites, having destroyed Alalakh and Urshu, headed toward Hassum in his sixth year (around 1644 BC, middle chronology).
The citizens rallied their forces three times against the Hittites,[16] but Hattusili sacked the city and seized the statues of the god Teshub, his wife Hebat and a pair of silver bulls that were the bulls of Teshub,[17] and carried them to Hattusa,[18] where they were kept in the temple of Arinna.
[19] The king of Hassum was captured and humiliated, he was harnessed to one of the wagons used to transport the loot of his city and taken to the Hittite capital.