Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in
cuneiform
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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
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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 ...
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-Ad ...
’s later successors,
Mut-Ashkur and
Rimush. The Synchronistic Kinglist
[''Synchronistic Kinglist'', Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 7’.] gives his
Babylonian counterpart as
Ayadaragalama 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, 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
References
{{Assyrian kings
17th-century BC Assyrian kings