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Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Mark Weeden
Mark Weeden*
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, mw41@soas.ac.uk
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Abstract

This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in the events depicted in the large inscription of TOPADA. The historical and geographical import of this inscription is explored through a close reading of its historical portion, concluding that its background is set in a local struggle for power over north-western Cappadocia.

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IRAQ , Volume 72 , 2010 , pp. 39 - 61
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2010

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