Bazaya

Bazaya, Bāzāia or Bāzāiu, inscribed mba-za-a-a and of uncertain meaning (died 1622 BC), was the ruler of Assyria the 52nd listed on the Assyrian King List, succeeding Iptar-Sin, to whom he was supposedly a great-uncle. He reigned for around 28 years and has left no known inscriptions.

Family

The Assyrian king lists give Bazaya's five predecessors as father-son successors, although all reigned during a 52 period, stretching genealogical credibility. All three extant copies give his father as Bel-bani, the second in the sequence, whose reign had ended 41 years earlier and who had been the great-grandfather of his immediate predecessor. The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings, Libaya, Sharma-Adad I, and Iptar-Sin may have been Bel-bani's brothers.

The Synchronistic Kinglist gives his Babylonian counterpart as Peshgaldaramesh of the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded by Lullaya, a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bazaya's own son, Shu-Ninua.

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