Hiritu was a city in southern Mesopotamia, known from the letters from the archives in Mari (18th century BC). It was situated on the eastern bank of the Irnina River, a tributary of the Euphrates, not far from the city of Sippar. After Hammurabii (1792-1750 BC) incorporated it into his state in 1764 BC. Later Hiritu was besieged by Elamites, but unsuccesfully. The combined forces of Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim of Mari stopped them.
This city iof Hiritu s probably identical with the the city of Hiritu in the province of Sippar which is mentioned in sources from the 7th century BC.
See:
- hirītu,in: The Assyrian Dictionary, tom 6 (H), The Oriental Institute, Chicago 1956, s. 198.
- Trevor Bryce, 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, Routledge, 2009, p. 312