2973964 Cylinder Seal, Northern Syria (quartz) by Mesopotamian; (add.info.: Mitanni also called Hanigalbat (Hanigalbat, Khanigalbat cuneiform 廎泳-ni-gal-bat) in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia from ca. 1500 BC??300 BC. Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class governing a predominantly Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite Babylon and a series of ineffectual Assyrian kings created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. ); Photo 穢 Zev Radovan; out of copyright.