Abstract

Kabnak (Kabinak) Late Bronze and Iron Age city in Susiana (region of mod. Khuzestan) in southwestern Iran. It is first attested as the seat of an Elamite governor called Athibu, subordinate of the C14 Elamite king Tepti-ahar, in seal impressions of Athibu discovered in the Late Bronze Age Elamite city now known as Haft Tepe (q.v.). Kabnak may therefore be the city’s anc. name. Subsequently, it appears (in the form Kabinak) in the record of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal’s conquest of Susa and other cities in 646.