Lullaya

Lullaya
Lullaya
Issi'ak Assur
King of Assur
Reign	c. 1621–1616 BC
Predecessor	Bazaya
Successor	Shu-Ninua
Father	"a nobody"

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 previous monarch, and reigned six years, from c. 1621–1616 BC, during a quiet and uneventful period in Assyrian history.^[2] 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.^[3]

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 Shamshi-Adad I’s later successors, Mut-Ashkur and Rimush.^[4] The Synchronistic Kinglist^{[i 4]} gives his Babylonian counterpart as Ayadaragalama of the Sealand Dynasty.^[5] There are no extant inscriptions from Lullaia's or his predecessor's reigns in marked contrast with their Sealand contemporaries.^[2]

He was succeeded by Shu-Ninua, the son of his predecessor, Bazaya, 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

^ Bertman, Stephen (2003). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0195183641.
^ ^a ^b Stephanie Dalley (2009). Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schoyen Collection. CDL Press. p. 3.
^ Julian Reade (Jan 2001). "Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of Ur, and Indus Origins". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 60 (1): 7. doi:10.1086/468883. JSTOR 545577. S2CID 161480780.
^ Jean-Jacques Glassner (2005). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 88.
^ A. Leo Oppenheim (1969). "Babylonian and Assyrian Historical Texts". In J. B. Pritchard (ed.). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (ANET). Princeton University Press. p. 273.