Alluwamna
Alluwamna | |
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 Personal seal of King Alluwamna: "Seal of Great King, Tabarna, Alluwamna. He who alters (it) will die." | |
| Predecessor | Tahurwaili[1] or Telipinu[2] |
| Successor | Hantili II |
| Spouse | Harapšeki |
| Children | Hantili II[3] |
Alluwamna was a king of the Hittites (Middle Kingdom) in the 15th century BC. He might be a successor of Telipinu as his son-in-law,[4][5] after the reign of Tahurwaili.[1]
Family
[edit]Alluwamna married Harapšeki, daughter of Telipinu. Their son was Hantili II.
Reign
[edit]Alluwamna's reign is attested by a seal (SBo I.86) which identifies him with the title "Great King". As a son-in-law of Telepinu (married to his first-rank daughter Harapšeki), Alluwamna would have been first in line for the throne. However, Tahurwaili banished him and his wife to Malitashkur[6] (see KUB 26:77), and so it is possible that he did not come to the throne right after Telepinu's death, but rather after the reign of Tahurwaili, first cousin of Telipinu[1] One text of Alluwamna records the granting of land to his son and likely successor Hantili II.[7]
See also
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External links
[edit]Sources
[edit]- ^ a b c Bin-Nun, S.R. (April 1974). "Who was Tahurwaili, the grate king?". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. v26 (2).
- ^ Myth And Politics In Ancient Near Eastern Historiography by Mario Liverani, ed. and introduced by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop
- ^ Johannes Lehmann: Die Hethiter, Volk der tausend Götter
- ^ The Tawananna in the Hittite kingdom by Shoshana R. Bin-Nun
- ^ The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce, p. 111–112.
- ^ Massimo Forlanini: An Attempt at Reconstructing the Branches of the Hittite Royal Family of the Early Kingdom Period; in: Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06119-3. p. 129
- ^ The Great Empires of the Ancient World, edited by Thomas Harrison, p.46