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'''Pamba''' was [[king]] of [[Hatti (land of the Hattians)|Hatti]], an ancient [[Bronze Age]] state from the pre-[[Hittites|Hittite]] period, situated in central regions of [[Anatolia]], modern [[Turkey]].

==Attestation==
He is mentioned in only one source, a [[Hittites|Hittite]] version (from {{circa}} 1400 [[BCE]]) of an older [[Akkadians|Akkadian]] story, that narrates several events related to much earlier times, taking place during the rule of great king [[Naram-Sin of Akkad|Naram-Sin]] of [[Akkadian Empire|Akkad]] (23rd century BCE). The story describes a war between the Akkadian ruler and an alliance of 17 kings, and the Hittite version includes Pamba of Hatti among those kings. That inclusion is not attested in Akkadian versions of the story, nor in contemporary sources, that would date from the period of the [[Akkadian Empire]], but some scholars hold that Hittite version (from {{circa}} 1400 BCE) is conditionally reliable, and probably derived from some local sources. In that case, the narrative would contain a trustworthy tradition, and thus provide a base for an assumption that the ancient [[Hatti (land of the Hattians)|Kingdom of Hatti]] existed already during the period of the Akkadian Empire.{{sfn|Bryce|2005|p=10}}{{sfn|Bryce|2009|p=297}}{{sfn|Gilan|2010|p=53}}{{sfn|Gilan|2018|p=7}}{{sfn|Glatz|2020|p=58}}

==Rulers==
{{S-start}}
{{S-vac | unknown | reason=earliest known [[Hattians|Hattian]] king}}
{{S-ttl | title=[[Hattians|Hattian]] king | years=23rd century BCE}}
{{S-vac | unknown | unknnext=[[Piyusti]]}}
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==See also==
{{Portal|Asia}}
* [[Hattians]]
* [[Hittites]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Sources==
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* {{Cite book|last=Beckman|first=Gary M.|author-link=Gary M. Beckman|chapter=Sargon and Naram-Sin in Ḫatti: Reflections of Mesopotamian Antiquity among the Hittites|title=Die Gegenwart des Altertums: Formen und Funktionen des Altertumsbezugs in den Hochkulturen der Alten Welt|year=2001|location=Heidelberg|publisher=Forum|pages=85–91|chapter-url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/77480/Sargon.pdf}}
* {{Cite book|last=Bryce|first=Trevor R.|author-link=Trevor R. Bryce|title=The Kingdom of the Hittites|year=2005|orig-year=1998|edition=2nd revised|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMHmCwAAQBAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Bryce|first=Trevor R.|author-link=Trevor R. Bryce|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire|year=2009|location=London-New York|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwwNS0diXP4C}}
* {{Cite book|last=Gilan|first=Amir|chapter=Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero|title=Epic and History|year=2010|location=Chichester|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|pages=51-65|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnXbhhN_kpIC}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Gilan|first=Amir|title=In Search of a Distant Past: Forms of Historical Consciousness in Hittite Anatolia|journal=Anadolu|year=2018|volume=44|pages=1-23|url=http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/14/2306/24019.pdf}}
* {{Cite book|last=Glatz|first=Claudia|author-link=Trevor R. Bryce|title=The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation|year=2020|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108491105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SPwAEAAAQBAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Goodnick-Westenholz|first=Joan|author-link=Joan Goodnick Westenholz|title=Legends of the Kings of Akkade: The Texts|year=1997|location=Winona Lake|publisher=Eisenbrauns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izhhWQEJkrQC}}
* {{Cite book|last=Goodnick-Westenholz|first=Joan|author-link=Joan Goodnick Westenholz|chapter=Historical Events and the Process of Their Transformation in Akkadian Heroic Traditions|title=Epic and History|year=2010|location=Chichester|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|pages=26-50|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnXbhhN_kpIC}}
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==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20130702111340/http://www.hittites.info/history.aspx?text=history/Hattic.htm%23Pamba Hattian Early Period]

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[[Category:Hattian kings]]
[[Category:23rd-century BC monarchs]]

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