Bazaya
| Bazaya | |
|---|---|
| Issi'ak Assur | |
| King of Assur | |
| Reign | c.1649–1622 BC[1] |
| Predecessor | Iptar-Sin |
| Successor | Lullaya |
| Issue | Shu-Ninua |
| Father | Iptar-Sin |
Bazaya,BāzāiaorBāzāiu,inscribedmba-za-a-aand of uncertain meaning, was the ruler ofAssyriac.1649 to 1622 BC, the 52nd listed on theAssyrian King List,succeedingIptar-Sin,to whom he was supposedly a great-uncle. He reigned for twenty-eight years and has left no known inscriptions.[2]
Biography[edit]
The Assyrian king lists[i 1][i 2][i 3]give Bazaya's five predecessors as father-son successors, although all reigned during a fifty-two period, stretching genealogical credibility. All three extant copies give his father asBel-bani,the second in the sequence, whose reign had ended forty-one years earlier and who had been the great-grandfather of his immediate predecessor.[3]The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings,Libaya,Sharma-Adad Iand Iptar-Sin may have beenBel-bani'sbrothers.[4]
The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 4]gives hisBabyloniancounterpart asPeshgaldarameshof the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded byLullaya,a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bāzāiu's own son,Shu-Ninua.[5]
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References[edit]
- ^Bertman, Stephen (2003).Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.New York: Oxford University Press. p. 81.ISBN978-0195183641.
- ^A. K. Grayson (1972).Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Volume 1.Otto Harrassowitz. pp. 30–31.
- ^B. Newgrosh (1999). "The Chronology of Ancient Assyria Re-assessed".Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum.8:79–80.
- ^J. A. Brinkman (1998). "Bēl-bāni". In K. Radner (ed.).The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part 2: B–G.The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. p. 288.
- ^K. Radner (1998). "Bāzāiu".The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part 2: B–G.The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. p. 278.