Suhi II.

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Suhi II. Was a neo-Hittite king of Karkemiš , who lived in the 10th century BC. Ruled. He is known from five inscriptions, but only one of them provides substantial information about his reign. Karkemiš was a city-state in the south of what is now Turkey , near the Syrian border. After the fall of the Hittite Empire around 1200 BC Various smaller successor states arose. Karkemiš was one of the most important of them. Suhi II was the son and successor of the little-witnessed king Astuwalamanza . On the basis of the inscriptions, various ruling families ruling one after another can be distinguished. Suhi II belonged to the Suhi dynasty, the founder of which was Suhi I , his grandfather.

An inscription from Karkemiš consists of six lines in Luwian language and script and is placed on a limestone orthostat that was once part of a long wall that was decorated. Six heads are preserved under the inscription. This is followed by 16 hands and a guilloche ribbon . The block is now in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations . It is a building inscription that also provides historically important information. The inscription was dedicated to the weather god Tarḫunz . Suhi II reports of the destruction of the city of Alatahana and also mentions the city of Hazauna. There is no other evidence of either location. In the inscription, the wife of Suhi II is named Wasuti. (Transcription BONUS ti mentioned). Furthermore, his son is called Halpasulupi. Another inscription by the ruler is dedicated to her: I Wasuti, the wife of the sovereign Suhi. Wherever my husband honors his name, let him also honor mine in his goodness. The text is also on an orthostat plate, which also shows a naked goddess.

A third inscription found in Kelekli mentions a planned marriage between Suhi's daughter and a king named Tudhaliya. The latter king is not known from any other sources. An inscription by his son and successor Katuwa explicitly names Suhi as his father.

literature

  • Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford University Press: Oxford, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-921872-1 , p. 91
  • John David Hawkins: Inscriptions of the Iron Age (Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions), Berlin, New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-080420-1
  • Federico Giusfredi: Sources for a socio-economic history of the Neo-Hittite states . (= Texts of the Hittites, Issue 28.) Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8253-5810-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hawkins: Inscriptions of the Iron Age , pp. 87-91, now Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, No. 10067
  2. ↑ Hawkins: Inscriptions of the Iron Age , pp. 91–92, now Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, No. 10075
  3. ↑ Hawkins: Inscriptions of the Iron Age , pp. 92–93, today: Stele, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, No. VA 8477.
  4. ↑ Hawkins: Inscriptions of the Iron Age , pp. 100-108, now Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, No. 113 and 99
predecessor Office successor
Astuwalamanza King of Karkemiš
10th century BC BC - around 900 BC Chr. 		Katuwa
personal data
SURNAME Suhi II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Karkemiš
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 10th century BC Chr.