Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in
cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sha ...
phonetically
m''lu-ul-la-a-a'',
[''Khorsabad List'', IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), ii 22.][''SDAS List'', IM 60484, ii 19.] a
hypocoristic
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...
name, was the 53rd king of
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...
to be added to the
Assyrian King List
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
. He was a “son of a nobody,” i.e. unrelated to a previous monarch, and reigned six years, from 1621–1616 BC, during a quiet and uneventful period in Assyrian history.
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.
Biography
He was the last in the sequence of kings omitted from the dissident Assyrian Kinglist known as KAV 14,
[''Assyrian Kinglist'' fragment VAT 9812 = KAV 14: 5.] which otherwise provides the only extant sequence of
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad ( akk, Šamši-Adad; Amorite: ''Shamshi-Addu''), ruled 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.Some of the Mari letters addressed to Shamsi-Ada ...
’s later successors,
Mut-Ashkur Mut-Ashkur (a Hurrian name) was possibly a king of Assyria, or just Ekallatum, in the 18th century BC. He was the son and successor of Ishme-Dagan. His father arranged for him to marry the daughter of the Hurrian
The Hurrians (; cuneiform: ; tr ...
and
Rimush
Rimush (or Rimuš, ''Ri-mu-uš'') was the second king of the Akkadian Empire. He was the son of Sargon of Akkad and Queen Tashlultum. He was succeeded by his brother Manishtushu, and was an uncle of Naram-Sin of Akkad. Rimush reported having a sta ...
. The Synchronistic Kinglist
[''Synchronistic Kinglist'', Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 7’.] gives his
Babylonia
Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...
n counterpart as
Ayadaragalama
The First Sealand dynasty, (URU.KÙKIWhere ŠEŠ-ḪA of King List A and ŠEŠ-KÙ-KI of King List B are read as URU.KÙ.KI) or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 B ...
of the Sealand Dynasty.
There are no extant inscriptions from Lullaia's or his predecessor's reigns in marked contrast with their Sealand contemporaries.
[
He was succeeded by ]Shu-Ninua
Shu-Ninua or ŠÚ- or Kidin-Ninua, inscribed mŠÚ-URU.AB x ḪA,''Khorsabad Kinglist'', tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54). ii 24, 26, 28 and 35,''SDAS Kinglist'', tablet IM 60484, ii 20, 21, 22 and 27. the 54th king to appear on ...
, the son of his predecessor, Bazaya
Bazaya, Bāzāia or Bāzāiu, inscribed m''ba-za-a-a'' and of uncertain meaning, was the ruler of Assyria 1649 to 1622 BC, the 52nd listed on the Assyrian King List, succeeding Iptar-Sin, to whom he was supposedly a great-uncle. He reigned for tw ...
, for whom he may have acted as regent until reaching his majority as there is no tradition that Lullaia was a usurper.
Inscriptions
References
{{Assyrian kings
17th-century BC Assyrian kings