In 805 BCE, as reported on the Pazarcık Stele, Kummuh king Ušpilulume (Šuppiluliuma) asked for the assistance of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III against the a coalition of eight kings led by Ataršumki of Arpad.
Nestorian Stele | Mesha Stele | View of the 1413 Yongning Temple Stele, from ''The Russians on the Amur'' (1861) by Ernst Georg Ravenstein | Mesha stele |