Warpalawas

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Warpalawas (right) in adoration of the weather god on the relief of İvriz

Warpalawas (II.) ( Assyrian Urballa, Urpalla ) was in the 8th century BC. A ruler of the late Luwian small state Tuwana , which roughly corresponded to the Hittite Tuwanuwa and the later, ancient landscape of Tyanitis . The area includes today's Turkish province Niğde , the capital is located on the site of today's Kemerhisar .

government

The reign of Warpalawas is from about 740 to 705 BC. Adopted. He was the son of Muwaharani (I.). His empire belonged to the Luwian kingdom of Tabal , which was dependent on the Assyrian empire . In Assyrian sources Warpawalas / Urballa is mentioned as one of the five kings of Tabal, the Tiglat-Pileser III. were subject to tribute. His territory lay between the kingdom of the Muški under the local king Mita and the also Luwian kingdom of Qu'e under Avarikus . The Muški are generally equated with the Phrygians and Mita with King Midas . In a letter from Sargon II to his governor Ašur-Šarru-Usur in Qu'e from 710/9 Warpalawas is mentioned by name as the only one of the kings of Tabal who should be kept under control. From a report by Ašur-Šarru-Usur to Sargon it emerges that the latter subordinated parts of Bit Burutaš to Warpalawas after his king Ambaris had been deposed and deported to Assyria.

After Warpalawas' death, his son Muwaharanis (II.) Succeeded him to the throne.

Warpalawas II is not to be confused with Warpalawas I, who lived in the early 8th century BC. Ruled over Tuwana.

Mentions and illustrations

The İvriz rock relief shows the king adoring the weather god Tarhunza . The inscription on the İvriz II stele discovered in 1986 also mentions him. Another depiction can be found on the stele of Bor , which was found in Kemerhisar and is now exhibited in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara . In the inscription of Bulgarian soldiers on Bolkar Dağ, his subject Tarhunazas writes that Warpalawa's land around Mount Muti was given to him. The king is also mentioned on the inscription of the weather god relief of his son Muwaharanis, which was found near the castle hill of Niğde . This stele and the fragment of a stele from Andaval , in whose inscription Warpalawas is also mentioned, can be seen in the Niğde Archaeological Museum . In the rock inscription of Topada he is mentioned as one of the kings who are friendly to Wasusarma , the great king of Tabal .

literature

  • Tuwana In: Trevor Bryce : The Routledge Handbook of The People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persians Empire. Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-1-134-15908-6 , p. 726 ( on GoogleBooks )

Web links

Commons : Warpalawas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trevor Bryce : The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms; A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, pp. 148-152, p. 307.
  2. ^ John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, p. 42
  3. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms; A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, pp. 148-152, p. 307.
  4. ^ Winfried Orthmann : Investigations on late Hittite art. (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Antiquity, Vol. 8) Habelt, Bonn 1971 Plate 38 Kemerhisar 1 ISBN 978-3774911222
  5. ^ John David Hawkins: Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Vol 1. Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Part 1: Text: Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamiš, Tell Ahmar, Maraş, Malatya, Commagene. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, p. 432
predecessor Office successor
Muwaharanis I. King of Tuwana
approx. 740-705 / approx. 738-710 BC Chr. 		Muwaharanis II
personal data
SURNAME Warpalawas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urballa, Urpalla (Assyrian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the small Anatolian state Tuwana
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC Chr.