Bazaya
Bāzāia or Bāzāiu, inscribed mba-za-a-a and of uncertain meaning, was the ruler of Assyria rather speculatively ca. 1649-1622 BC, the 52nd listed on the Assyrian King List, succeeding IB.TAR.Sîn, to whom he was supposedly a great-uncle. He reigned for twenty-eight years and has left no known inscriptions.[1]
Biography
The Assyrian king lists[i 1][i 2][i 3] give Bāzāiu’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 as Bēl-bāni, the second in the sequence, whose reign had ended forty-one years earlier and who had been the great-grandfather of his immediate predecessor.[2] The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings, Libaia, Šarma-Adad I and IB.TAR.Sîn, may have been Bēl-bāni's brothers.[3]
The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 4] gives his Babylonian counterpart as Pešgaldarameš of the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded by Lullaia, a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bāzāiu’s own son, ŠÚ-Ninua.[4]
Inscriptions
- ↑ Khorsabad List, IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), ii 20.
- ↑ SDAS List, IM 60484, ii 18.
- ↑ Nassouhi List, Istanbul A. 116 (Assur 8836), ii 15.
- ↑ Synchronistic Kinglist, Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 6’.
References
| Preceded by | King of Assyria 1649–1622 BC |
Succeeded by Lullaia |
