Telipinu
Telipinu | |
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| Born | Hittite Empire |
| Predecessor | Huzziya I |
| Successor | Tahurwaili |
| Spouse | Queen Ištapariya[1] |
| Children | Harapšeki |
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Telipinu was the last king of the
Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the South.[3]
Biography
Telipinu was a son-in-law of
agricultural god Telipinu.[4] During Telipinu’s reign, Huzziya and his five brothers were killed.[5]
His son and wife were killed by Telepinu's rivals to the throne. The assassins were caught and sentenced to death, but Telepinu showed his desire to stop the bloodshed (many of his predecessors were assassinated or died mysteriously) and banished these assassins instead.
He was able to recover a little ground from the
Middle Kingdom
, lasting around 70 years, when records become too scanty to draw many conclusions.
Telepinu is perhaps most famous for drawing up the Edict of Telepinu which dictated the laws of succession for the Hittite throne. It was designed to stop all the royal murders which had taken place in the previous decades, which had destabilised the empire and reduced the empire to only its heartland.
Let a
daughter, and let him become king.
Family
Alluwamna was a son-in-law of Telipinu, because he married Princess Harapšeki, and Telipinu was her father.[6]
External links
Notes
- ^ The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile by Jeremy M. Hutton
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Telepinus: Hittite king", in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved: 29 April, 2022.
- ^ Birgit Brandau, Hartmut Schickert: Hethiter Die unbekannte Weltmacht
- ^ Beckman, Gary. "Telipinu" in Reallexicon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Vol. 13. 2012
- Trevor Bryce
- ^ Biography and family of King Telepinu
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