Arukku ( Assyrian A-ru-uk-ku , Old Persian Harriukqa / Hariuwuka , Iranian Aryavuka / Aryuka , Aramaic Aryuk ; * before 656 BC) was the eldest son of a King Kuraš from Parsumaš .
In connection with the destruction of Susa , the de facto dissolution of the kingdom of Elam by Assurbanipal , Kuraš sent his son Arukku in 639 BC. After Nineveh to recognize the suzerainty of the Assyrians . The equation made of Parsua with Parsumaš would mean that the Cyrus mentioned here is one of many kings or has in the meantime taken over the supremacy. 835 BC BC, in the 24th year of the reign of Shalmaneser III. , Parsua is mentioned as a land with 27 kings .
Traditionally Arukku is usually the son of Cyrus I identified. The mention is considered to be evidence of the oldest news about the Persian royal family . This led to the conclusion that Cambyses I must have been another son. According to this chronology, in which Cyrus appears as father and king, the birth of Cyrus would have been around 680 to 675 BC at the latest. To apply.
Alternative explanations
The Cyrus mentioned by Assurbanipal did not have a vassal status , but delivered voluntary gifts to Assyria in order to establish friendly relations with the new neighboring state. However, these gifts were recorded as tribute in the Assyrian royal lists . The traditional derivation is cited by some historians as not mandatory, since the age of Cyrus is described as too high and the reading of the name Arukkus as unsafe.´
Rejection of equation
Other historians question the equation of Parsumaš with Parsa and comment on the traditional equations as outdated and refuted .
literature
Reinhold Bichler : Herodotus world. The structure of history based on the image of foreign countries and peoples, their civilization and their history . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003429-7 .
Klaas Veenhof : History of the Old Orient up to the time of Alexander the Great (floor plans for the Old Testament; Vol. 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-51686-X .
Notes and individual references
↑ Dietz-Otto Edzard: History of Mesopotamia , p. 198.
^ Ernst Friedrich Weidner : The oldest news about the Persian royal house; Cyrus I a contemporary of Ashurbanipal . In: AfO , Vol. 7 (1931/32), pp. 1-7, ISSN 0066-6440 .
↑ Arukku as a 17-year-old son in 639 BC Chr. Results in a year of birth of at the latest 656 BC. Chr .; his father Cyrus was at least 19 years old in the year Arukku was born.
^ Dietz-Otto Edzard: History of Mesopotamia , p. 226.
