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Bazaya

FieldValue
nameBazaya
titleIssi'ak Assur
successionKing of Assur
reign1649–1622 BC
predecessorIptar-Sin
successorLullaya
fatherBel-bani
issueShu-Ninua

Bazaya, Bāzāia or Bāzāiu, inscribed mba-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 twenty-eight years and has left no known inscriptions.

Family

The Assyrian king listsKhorsabad 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. 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 as Bel-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. The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings, Libaya, Sharma-Adad I and Iptar-Sin may have been Bel-bani's brothers.

The Synchronistic KinglistSynchronistic Kinglist, Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 6’. gives his Babylonian counterpart as Peshgaldaramesh of the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded by Lullaya, a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bāzāiu's own son, Shu-Ninua.

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References

References

  1. Bertman, Stephen. (2003). "Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia". Oxford University Press.
  2. A. K. Grayson. (1972). "Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Volume 1". Otto Harrassowitz.
  3. B. Newgrosh. (1999). "The Chronology of Ancient Assyria Re-assessed". Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum.
  4. J. A. Brinkman. (1998). "The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part 2: B–G". The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.
  5. K. Radner. (1998). "The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part 2: B–G". The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.
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