Bazaya, Bāzāia or Bāzāiu, inscribed
m''ba-za-a-a'' and of uncertain meaning, was the ruler of
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...
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 lists
[Khorsabad 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 Kinglist
[Synchronistic Kinglist, Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 6’.] gives his
Babylonia
Babylonia (; , ) was an Ancient history, ancient Akkadian language, Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria and Iran). It emerged as a ...
n 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.
Inscriptions
References
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17th-century BC Assyrian kings