Nuḫašše

Kadeš Aleppo Nuḫašše Alalach

Map of Syria

Nuḫašše referred to a region in the north of today's Syria east of the Orontes in the Middle and Late Bronze Age . The area does not appear to have been a united kingdom, but rather to have consisted of a union of various small principalities.

The Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III. tells of the conquest of Nuḫaššes. According to the Amarna letter EA 51, a certain Taku was used as a representative of Egyptian interests in the region. The area later came under the influence of the Hurrian Mittani empire for a short time before the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I. Nuḫašše conquered. Most recently, the region seems to have been under the rule of the King of Karkemiš .

The toponym is likely to survive in the Akkadian and Aramaic regions of Luḫuti and Luʿaš .

List of kings

• Šarrupši , around 1340 to 1338 BC Chr.
• Addu-nerari , only a short time around 1338 BC. Chr.
• Takib-šarri , around 1338 BC Chr.
• Tette around 1338 to 1322 BC. BC and again from 1320 BC Chr.
• Šumittara , 1322 to 1320 BC Chr.
• Tette, 1320 to about 1312 BC. Chr.

literature

• 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 Persian Empire. Routledge, London & New York 2009, p. 515. ISBN 978-0-415-39485-7
• Horst Klengel : Nuḫašše . In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie , Vol. 9 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1998-2001, pp. 610-611.
• Horst Klengel: History of the Hittite Empire . Brill, Leiden 1999, ISBN 90-04-10201-9

Remarks

1. ↑ John David Hawkins : Luḫuti . In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a. (Ed.): Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 7 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987–90, ISBN 3-11-010437-7 , pp. 159–161.