Kupantakurunta (Mira)

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Kupantakurunta (also Kupanta-Kurunta , Kubanta-Kurunta in cuneiform Kupanta- d KAL ) was Hittite vassal king of Mira and reigned from about 1310 to after 1259 v. He was the nephew and adopted son of Mašḫuiluwa , who was married to Muwatti , a daughter of the Hittite great king Šuppiluliuma I. Since the marriage remained childless, Kupantakurunta was adopted by the couple.

King Muršili II. After the submission of Arzawa around 1315 BC. Chr. Mašḫuiluwa as a vassal king over Mira, which formed the heartland of Arzawa. After he rose against Mursili, he had to flee and was finally extradited. Muršili II then set in his 12th year of reign (probably 1310) Kupantakurunta as a vassal king over Mira. Kupantakurunta remained apparently also Mursilis successors Muwatalli II and Mursili III. (Urḫi-Teššub) after attušili III. around 1265 BC Chr. Usurped the Hittite throne, and sat unsuccessfully at Pharaoh Ramses II for Mursili III. a. A corresponding letter to Ramses is dated 1259 BC. Dated, because his request was unsuccessful, because in the meantime the peace treaty between Ḫattušili III and Ramses III. was completed.

Successors to Kupantakuruntas as kings of Mira were Alantalli and probably Tarkasnawa . When Kupantakurunta died is uncertain. Van den Hout even sees Kupantakurunta as the author of a highly fragmented text (KUB 6.47) in which Alantalli is mentioned and therefore at the very beginning of the reign of Tudḫalija IV (approx. 1237 BC, after van den Hout approx. 1240 BC) was created. Accordingly, it is an oath of loyalty to the inauguration of Tudḫalija, in which the aging ruler Miras wants to secure the successor to his son Alantalli. If this were the case, Kupantakurunta would have died after the beginning of Tudḫalija's rule, but before the creation of the bronze plaque from Boğazköy , which also laid down the state treaty with Kurunta , also dated to the early phase of Tudḫalija's rule , as whose witness Alantalli is listed. However, van den Hout's reading met with rejection, mainly because Kupanta-Kurunta must have become extremely old in the case.

According to some researchers, Kupantakurunta is called in the short form ku-pa-i (a) in one of the rock inscriptions on Suratkaya , but the reading is controversial.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mursilis mentions in his annals at the beginning of his 10th year of reign a solar eclipse , which according to Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite Religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies Volume 15). Brill, Leiden, 1994, p. 27. with one of the solar eclipses on June 14, 1312 or on April 13, 1308 BC. Can be identified. The first mentioned date is usually used as a basis in research.
  2. ↑ After reading the rock relief of Karabel by John David Hawkins : Tarkasnawa, King of Mira: 'Tarkondemos', Boğazköy sealings and Karabel. Anatolian Studies 48, 1998, pp. 1–31, with Hawkins himself emphasizing the uncertainties of his reading.
  3. ^ Theo PJ Van den Hout : The Ulmitešub contract. A prosopographical investigation. Studies on the Boğazköy texts, vol. 38. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, pp. 142ff.
  4. ↑ John David Hawkins: Tarkasnawa, King of Mira: 'Tarkondemos', Boğazköy sealings and Karabel. Anatolian Studies 48, 1998, p. 17, note 82: “Kupanta- D KAL would have been improbably old”. See also Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer : Comments on StBoT 38 , Archive for Orient Research, Vol. 48/49, 2001/2002, p. 104: "... seems unlikely."

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SURNAME Kupantakurunta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupanta-Kurunta; Kubanta-Kurunta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hittite vassal king of Mira
DATE OF BIRTH before 1310 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 1259 BC Chr.