Suppiluliuma (Pattin)

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Statue from Tell Tayinat

Suppiluliuma (

Neo-Hittite state of Pattin in the mid-ninth century BC.[3]

In 858 BC, Suppiluliuma entered into an alliance with the other Neo-Hittite states

Hilakku, Yahan and Yasbuq.[5] Shalmaneser inflicted a second defeat on the coalition near Alimush. Suppiluliuma was in command at this second battle, but his fate is unknown. His reign, however, came to an end. His successor, Halparuntiya, paid tribute to Assyria in 857 and 853.[3]

In 2012, a large statue with a fragmentary inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian was discovered at the site of the Pattinite capital in Tell Tayinat. The statue is identified as Suppiluliuma, but his kingdom is not mentioned in the surviving inscription.[6] It may belong to an earlier king of Pattin of the same name. The king defeated in 858 may well have been the second or third Suppilulium of Pattin. The fragmentary inscription is in the style of Assyrian royal inscriptions, such as those of Shalmaneser celebrating his victories over Suppiluliuma. The statue claims that Suppiluliuma seized eight regions from an enemy, put up something (possibly a monument) along his frontier and did something undecipherable to a hundred towns.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Weeden 2013, p. 15.
  2. ^ a b Weeden 2023, pp. 961–963.
  3. ^ a b c Bryce 2012, p. 131.
  4. ^ Bryce 2012, p. 219.
  5. ^ Bryce 2012, p. 221.
  6. ^ Weeden 2013, pp. 12, 16.

Bibliography

  • Bryce, Trevor (2012). The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History. Oxford University Press.
  • Weeden, Mark (2013). "After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria" (PDF). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 56 (2): 1–20.
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  • Weeden, Mark (2023). "The Iron Age States of Central Anatolia and Northern Syria". In
    doi:10.1093/oso/9780190687632.003.0046
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