Wasusarma

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Wasusarma ( Assyrian Wassurme or Uassurme, hieroglyphic Luwish wa / i 4 -su-SARMA-ma-sa ) was a neo-Hittite king of Tabal , who lived around 740 / 38–730 BC. Ruled. He carried the titles of great king and hero , like his father Tuwati II (middle 8th century BC) before him.

Inscription of Wasusarma in Topada

Wasusarma is mentioned in several hieroglyphic inscriptions from his subjects. But he also left his own inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs. In this inscription the king of Tabal reports that eight kings were hostile to him, but that three were on his side. These three allies were Warpalawa II of Tuwana, Kiyakiya from Šinuḫtu and the sidecar fighter (?) Ruwata. The enemy kings, among them lesser and more important, so Wasusarma, assembled in the city of Parzata or Parzuta, which could have been near the western border of Tabalo. Wasusarma gathered his cavalry and occupied his frontier fortresses. The ruler of Parzata then set up his own border line and attacked the king of Tabal sharply. In response to this, Wasusarma and his cavalry invaded the land of Parzata, ravaged it and destroyed large parts of its population, including women and children, as slaves. Meanwhile, the enemies attacked the Tabali borders, but could not take them. The war lasted three years before Wasusarma was victorious in a great battle and was able to take the city of Parzata for good, after which it was sacked. Wasusarma thanked the weather god Tarhunza and the gods Sarruma , (DEUS) * 198- sa and (DEUS) BOS. * 206.PANIS- sa for the victory . The trigger of the armed conflict could have been an expansionist policy of the Tabal kings. In any case, Tabal was the largest and most powerful of those states (Tabal, Atuna, Tuwana, Ištuanda, Ḫupišna and Šinuḫtu), which the Assyrians in their entirety also called Tabal.

Assyrian sources provide more information about Wasusarma (in the form of the name Wassurme) . In 738 BC Wasusarma of Tabal became a tributary subject of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III. listed. Wasusarma, however, caused problems as an Assyrian vassal. On the one hand he refused the requested tribute payments, on the other hand his title of great king caused problems. Tiglath-pileser III. Accused Wasusarma of wanting to put himself on a par with his Assyrian overlord and demanded that he go to Assyria and appear before the Assyrian king himself. Wasusarma did not obey the order, which is why he was unceremoniously deposed by Assyrian troops. The throne of Tabal then ascended a puppet ruler of the Assyrians, ulli, "son of a no-man" (730-726 BC), who was perhaps of civil origin. The great king dynasty of Tabal, to which Wasusarma and his father Tuwati II belonged, came to an end.

Wasusarma is mentioned in several rock inscriptions and steles. These include the rock inscription from Topada , the inscription stone from Suvasa , the inscription from Göstesin and the stelae from Kayseri and Sultanhanı.

literature

  • Gwendolyn Leick: Who's Who in the Ancient Near East . Routledge, London 1999, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-13231-2
  • 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
  • Annick Payne: Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions . Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2012, ISBN 978-1-58983-269-5
  • Sanna Aro-Valjus: Uassurme , RIA 14, 3rd delivery (2014), p. 257.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, p. 143.
  2. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, p. 265.
  3. ↑ Annick Payne: Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions . Atlanta 2012, p. 54.
  4. ^ A b Gwendolyn Leick: Who's Who in the Ancient Near East . London 1999, 2002, p. 175 f.
  5. ^ A b Annick Payne: Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions . Atlanta 2012, p. 57 f.
  6. ^ A b Annick Payne: Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions . Atlanta 2012, p. 58.
  7. ↑ Annick Payne: Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions . Atlanta 2012, p. 56.
  8. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, pp. 270 f.
  9. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, p. 264 f.
  10. ^ A b Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, p. 271.
  11. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History . Oxford, New York 2012, p. 144.
predecessor Office successor
Tuwati II King of Tabal
740 / 38–730 BC Chr. 		Ḫulli
personal data
SURNAME Wasusarma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wašušarma; Wasusarmas; Water towers; Uassurme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Tabal
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC Chr.