Ammuna
Ammuna | |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Zidanta I |
| Successor | Huzziya I |
| Children | Tittiya King Huzziya I[1] Ištapariya |
| Parent | King Zidanta I[2] |
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Ammuna was a
short chronology timeline).[5] The land seems to have suffered badly during his reign, and he lost a considerable amount of territory.[6]
Biography
Family
Ammuna was the son of the King Zidanta I[7] and grandson of Hantili I.[8] He killed his father to become a king and had a large family.[9]
Reign
A fragmentary chronicle of Ammuna's reign is known. The annals seem to indicate that Ammuna successfully plundered
Neša
, but was fighting it again soon after. He also seems to have fought against the city of Šattiwara and the city of Šuluki.
His successor was his son Huzziya I,[10] but he also had a daughter, Ištapariya.
External links
Sources
- ^ The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile by Jeremy M. Hutton
- ^ Edict of Telipinu, §18
- ^ Ḫattuša – Boğazköy; Das Hethiterreich im Spannungsfeld des Alten Orients (szerk. Gernot Wilhelm), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- ISBN 978-1-136-75548-4.
- Trevor Bryce. Online version.
- ^ Klengel, H. (1999). Geschichte des hethitischen Reichs, Leiden
- ^ Gwendolyn Leick, Who's Who in the Ancient Near East
- ^ Telepinu Proclamation, §13
- ^ Reign of Zidanta I Archived May 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours by Yoram Cohen, Amir Gilan, Jared L. Miller