Lullaya
Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in cuneiform phonetically mlu-ul-la-a-a,[i 1][i 2] a hypocoristic name, was the 53rd king of Assyria to be added to the Assyrian King List. He was a “son of a nobody,” i.e. unrelated to a previously monarch, and reigned 6 years, from 1621–1616 BC (middle chronology) or 1599–1594 BC (short chronology), during a period when a rather diminished Assyria was overshadowed by its more powerful neighbor, the Mitanni.[1] Reade speculates that he may be identified with the earlier king, Aššūr-dugul, on the basis of their similar lengths of reign and lack of royal parentage.[2]
Biography
He was the last in the sequence of kings omitted from the dissident Assyrian Kinglist known as KAV 14,[i 3] which otherwise provides the only extant sequence of Šamši-Adad I’s later successors, [Mu]t-Aškur and Rīmu[š].[3] The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 4] gives his Babylonian counterpart as Ayadaragalama of the Sealand Dynasty.[4] There are no extant inscriptions from Lullaia's or his predecessor's reigns in marked contrast with their Sealand contemporaries.[1]
He was succeeded by ŠÚ- or Kidin-Ninua, the son of his predecessor, Bāzāiu, for whom he may have acted as regent until reaching his majority as there is no tradition that Lullaia was a usurper.
Inscriptions
- ↑ Khorsabad List, IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), ii 22.
- ↑ SDAS List, IM 60484, ii 19.
- ↑ Assyrian Kinglist fragment VAT 9812 = KAV 14: 5.
- ↑ Synchronistic Kinglist, Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 7’.
References
| Preceded by | King of Assyria 1621–1616 BC |
Succeeded by ŠÚ- or Kidin-Ninua |
