"Tabal"@fr . "\"Bluff\""@en . "Tabal"@en . "Tabal"@en . "Tabal was the river-god of Kussara. He directly spoke to his steward-king, Pitkhanas, as did the other deities of the city."@en . . "Some scholars associate them with the Meshechs (Meshekhs/Mosokhs, Moschoi in Greek). According to the archaeologist Kurt Bittel, Tabal first appears after the collapse of the Hittite Empire. The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III records that he received gifts from their 24 kings in 837 BC and the following year. A century later, their king Burutash is mentioned in an inscription of king Tiglath-Pileser III. They have left a number of inscriptions from the 9th-8th centuries BC in hieroglyphic-Luwian in the Turkish villages of \u00C7alapverdi and Ali\u015Far. The known later rulers of Tabal are:"@en . . . . . "Direct"@en . . . . . . . . "Tabal was the river-god of Kussara. He directly spoke to his steward-king, Pitkhanas, as did the other deities of the city."@en . . "The River"@en . . . . . . "Some scholars associate them with the Meshechs (Meshekhs/Mosokhs, Moschoi in Greek). According to the archaeologist Kurt Bittel, Tabal first appears after the collapse of the Hittite Empire. The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III records that he received gifts from their 24 kings in 837 BC and the following year. A century later, their king Burutash is mentioned in an inscription of king Tiglath-Pileser III. They have left a number of inscriptions from the 9th-8th centuries BC in hieroglyphic-Luwian in the Turkish villages of \u00C7alapverdi and Ali\u015Far. The Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili considered Tabal, Tubal, Jabal and Jubal to be ancient Georgian tribal designations, and argued that they spoke a non-Indo-European language. They and other related tribes, the Chalybes (Khalib/Khaldi) and the Mossynoeci (Mossynoikoi in Greek), are sometimes considered the founders of metallurgy. These three tribes still neighbored each other, along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia (ancient Pontus), as late as in Roman times (the tribes were known in Latin as Tibareni, Chalybes, and Mossynoeci/Mosynoeci). On the evidence of Hecataeus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and others, the tribe of the Tibareni (Tibarenoi in Greek) lived in the north of the territory of Tabal. The known later rulers of Tabal are: \n* Ambaris (until ca. 713) \n* Hidi (ca. 690) \n* Mugallu (ca. 670) \n* x-ussi (ca. 650)"@en . . "Kussaran pantheon"@en .