Bazaia or Bazaiu, inscribed mba-za-a-a and of uncertain meaning, was the ruler of Assyria rather speculatively ca. 1649-1622 BC, the 52nd listed on the Assyrian King List, succeeding IB.TAR.Sîn, of whom he was supposedly his great uncle. He reigned for twenty eight years and has left no known inscriptions.[1]
Biography
The Assyrian king lists[i 1][i 2][i 3] give Bazaius five predecessors as father-son successors, although all reigned during a fifty two period, stretching genealogical credibility. All three extant copies give his father as Bel-bani, the second in the sequence whose reign had ended forty one years earlier and who had been the great grandfather of his immediate predecessor.[2] The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings, Libaia, arma-Adad I and IB.TAR.Sîn, may have been Bel-bani's brothers.[3]
The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 4] gives his Babylonian counterpart as Pegaldarame of the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded by Lullaia, a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bazaius own son, Ú-Ninua
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