Awariku

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Awariku (also Awarik, Warika, Awarikku, Assyrian Urikki , Luwian Wariki ) was in the 8th century. King of the small Anatolian state Qu'e in the later plain Cilicia (Kilikia Pedias), in today's province of Adana in southern Turkey .

Life

Qu'e was at the time of Awariku the Assyrian king Tiglat-Pileser III. tribute. His reign is from 738 to 709 BC. Assumed BC, so lasted until the reigns of Shalmaneser V and Sargon II . Recai Tekoğlu and André Lemaire consider it likely that he had a treaty with the Assyrian Empire on a special protection relationship, with which they try to justify his relatively long reign. During this time, Qu'e, like the neighboring Hilakku, lost its status as a vassal state and was directly annexed to Assyria. A governor named Aššur-Šarru-Usur was dispatched, to whom Awariku was responsible. He then sent a 14-man delegation to the Urartian king to begin secret negotiations. The delegation was intercepted by the Phrygian King Midas and handed over to the governor. Whether Avariku's imminent death has anything to do with it can only be guessed.

Mentions

Awariku is the author of the bilingual Luwian - Phoenician inscription known as Bilingual of Çineköy on a Baal statue , which was found in 1997 south of Adana , the presumed royal seat of Qu'e. In the Luwian text it is called Wariki, in Phoenician only the letter W is preserved, which Lemaire adds to WR (Y) K. He calls his country Luwian Hiyawa , Phoenician Adanawa , land of the Danuneans . He reports that he had eight fortresses built in the east and seven fortresses in the west of his empire and traces his ancestry back to the house of Mopsos ( Muk (a) sa in Luwian, MPŠ in Phoenician text). This was connected by some researchers with the seer and city founder Mopsos of Greek mythology .

In the bilingual of Karatepe , an inscription found in Karatepe-Arslantaş , the Hittite Azatiwataya, the local ruler Azatiwada , a high official of the Awariku, describes his services to the kingdom of Qu'e. According to the text, he fortified and expanded the empire and enthroned the descendants of Avarikus. He also names Mopsos as his ancestor. Awariku is called here, as in Çineköy, as the king of the Danuneans .

Awariku is also mentioned in a Phoenician inscription from Hasanbeyli , near Zincirli , as well as in the as yet unpublished trilingual from Incirli.

In Assyrian texts from the time of Tiglath-Pileser III. and Sargon II he is called under the name Urikki as a tributary ruler.

literature

  • Que. 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 , pp. 583-584 (on GoogleBooks)
  • Recai Tekoğlu, André Lemaire, İsmet İpek, A. Kazım Tosun: La bilingue royale louvito-phénicienne de Çineköy. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 144e année, N. 3, 2000. pp. 961-1007. (Digitized version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, Eric H. Cline: The Ahhiyawa Texts (= Writings from the Ancient World 28). Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2011, p. 166.
  2. ^ Tamar Hodos: Responses To Colonization In The Iron-Age Mediterranean. Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0-415-37836-2 , p. 79 (on GoogleBooks)
  3. ^ Giovanni B. Lanfranchi: A happy son of the king of Assyria: Warikas and the Çineköy Bilingual (Cilicia). P. 131 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
predecessor Office successor
? King of Qu'e
738–709 BC Chr. 		Azatiwada
personal data
SURNAME Awariku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avarik; Warikas; Warika; Avarikku; Avarikus; Urikki (Assyrian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the small Anatolian state Qu'e in later Cilicia
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC Chr.