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Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in
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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 name, was the 53rd king of
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to be added to the
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. 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.


Chronological position

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
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’s later successors, Mut-Ashkur and Rimush. The Synchronistic Kinglist''Synchronistic Kinglist'', Ass 14616c (KAV 216), I 7’. gives his
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n 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 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, for whom he may have acted as regent until reaching his majority as there is no tradition that Lullaia was a usurper.


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{{Assyrian kings 17th-century BC Assyrian kings