Šattiwazza

Šattiwazza (Schattiwazza) was a king of Mittani (also Hanigalbat ) (approx. 1350-1320 BC). The reading of his name is controversial, Mat (t) iwaza and Kurtiwaza have also been suggested. His birth name is Kili-Teššup. He was the son of Tušratta .

Šattiwazza had concluded a vassal contract with Šuppiluliuma I and was married to a Hittite princess. Šuppiluliuma had promised to bring him to the throne, "The great king held me by his hand and took delight in me ... The sun, Šuppiluliuma, the great king, king of the land of Hatti , lover of Teššup , who the gods know , the word that comes out of his mouth will not be reversed. " He ruled a significantly reduced Mittani, which increasingly had to resist the Assyrian expansion on the eastern border .

literature

• H. Gonnet: Le Nom de Matiwaza sur un sceau hieroglyphique . In: HA Hoffner, GM Beckman (Ed.): Kaniššuwar: A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock on his Seventy-fifth Birthday . The Oriental Institute of the Univ. of Chicago, Chicago 1986, ( Assyriological Studies . Vol. 23) pp. 53-58.
• Ernst F. Weidner : Political documents from Asia Minor: The state treaties in Akkadian language from the archives of Boghazkoi . JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1923 ( Boghazkoi studies . Vol. 8-9).
• Gernot Wilhelm : Šattiwazza. In: Michael P. Streck u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie , Vol. 12. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009–2011, pp. 93–94.
• C. Zaccagnini: Sattiwaz (z) et al . In: Oriens Antiquus 13, 1974, pp. 25-34.

Web links

• Treaty of Šuppiluliuma I. von Hatti with Šattiwazza von Mittani - introduction and inscription
• Suppiluliuma (Hittite) - Shattiwaza (Mitanni) Treaty Excerpts . In: Zoroastrial Heritage . KE Eduljee. Retrieved November 17, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tušratta , 1370-1350 BC Chr.	King of Mittani 1350-1320 BC Chr.	Šattuara I , 1320-1300 BC Chr.