Adad-Nirari of Qatna

Adad-Nirari
Reign45+ regnal years
14th century BC
ConsortPizallum

Adad-Nirari or H̱addu-Nirari,[1] was a king of Qatna in the 14th century BC.

Reign

Adad-Nirari is an Akkadian name.[2] The king reigned for 45 years in the 14th century BC,[3][4] and was mentioned in the inventories of Ninegal, found in Qatna.[5] A tablet from Qatna records him stationing an army of chariot archers in the city of Tukad, in Mount Lebanon.[4][6] The name of his queen was Pizallum.[7]

Theories

Identity

Michael Astour suggested identifying Adad-Nirari with Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše; a hypothesis supported by Thomas Richter,[8] who believes that Adad-Nirari ruled Qatna through a šakkanakku (military governor) called Lullu, citing that the latter's name appears in the Qatanite inventories at the time of Adad-Nirari.[9] According to Richter, Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše ruled the second Syrian power after Mitanni,[10] and was removed by the Hittites which gave Qatna its independence back .[11]

This theory is debated; the Shattiwaza treaty between Mitanni and the Hittites mentioned Qatna independently from Nuhašše during the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I's first Syrian war; If Qatna was part of the Nuhaššite kingdom, its submission to the Hittites would not have been mentioned separately.[12] Jacques Freu rejected Richter's hypothesis; citing different arguments, he concluded that Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše was a contemporary of Idadnda of Qatna who ruled during the first Syrian war, a successor of the Qatanite Adad-Nirari.[13]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Novák 2004, p. 312.
  2. ^ Van Soldt 2004, p. 19.
  3. ^ Freu 2009, p. 19.
  4. ^ a b Pfälzner 2007, p. 34.
  5. ^ Gromova 2012, p. 2.
  6. ^ Richter 2008, p. 195.
  7. ^ Roßberger 2014, p. 204.
  8. ^ Gromova 2007, p. 300.
  9. ^ Richter 2005, p. 124.
  10. ^ Richter 2008, p. 196.
  11. ^ Gromova 2007, p. 301.
  12. ^ Gromova 2007, p. 302.
  13. ^ Freu 2009, p. 21.

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