Suppiluliuma (Pattin)

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Suppiluliuma, torso discovered in Ta'yinat in 2012

Suppiluliuma ( Assyrian Sapalulme) was a neo-Hittite king of Pattin , who in Assyrian sources around 858/57 BC. Is occupied.

King Suppiluliuma of Pattin was a member of an anti-Assyrian alliance of northern Syrian and northern Mesopotamian states, the other members of which were Aḫuni from Bit-Adini , Sangara from Karkemiš and Hajjanu from Sam'al . This alliance took effect in 858 BC. The army of the Assyrian king Šalmaneser III. near the city of Lutibu (possibly today's Sakçagözü) on the border of Sam'al. A fight in Sam'al further north had the advantage for Suppiluliuma that he could keep the fight away from his own territory. The anti-Assyrian alliance was defeated by the Assyrians, but not defeated.

After the victory in Sam'al, the Assyrian army moved south to the state of Pattin and threatened the fortified city of Alimuš or Ališir. In view of the Assyrian threat, Suppiluliuma von Pattin re-assembled the anti-Assyrian coalition army. In addition, the alliance was strengthened by the troops of Kate von Que , Piḫirim from Ḫilakku , Burannati from the Arab tribe of Jasbuq and Adanu from Jaḫan in Bit-Agusi. Despite an increase in troops, the anti-Assyrian alliance was subject to the Assyrians and the Syrian states were subject to the Assyrian Empire for at least five years. Nothing is known about the further fate of Suppiluliuma von Pattin.

The colossal statue of a Suppiluliuma, discovered in 2012, can be dated palaeographically to the 9th century and could therefore designate the bearer of the name discussed here. The hieroglyphic Luwian inscription on the back of the inscription is currently (March 2016) unpublished.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, p. 131.
  2. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, p. 219.
  3. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, p. 327.
  4. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, pp. 131, 219 f.
  5. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, p. 219 f.
  6. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford / New York 2012, p. 221.
  7. ↑ Mark Weeden: After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria . In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56 (2013), pp. 1-20.
predecessor Office successor
Labarna I. King of Pattin
around 858/857 BC Chr. 		Halparuntiya
personal data
SURNAME Suppiluliuma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šuppiluliuma; Sapal elm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Pattin
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 9th century BC Chr.