Telipinu

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For the Hittite god, see Telipinu (god).

Telipinu
Predecessor	Huzziya I
Religion	Hittite mythology
Spouse(s)	Queen Ištapariya^[1]
Children	Harapšeki

Telipinu was a king of the Hittites ca. 1460 BC (short chronology timeline). At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the South.^[2]

Biography

Telipinu was a son-in-law of Ammuna and brother-in-law of Huzziya I as a husband of Ammuna's daughter Ištapariya. During Telipinu’s reign, Huzziya and his five brothers were killed.^[3]

He was able to recover a little ground from the Hurrians of Mitanni, by forming an alliance with the Hurrians of Kizzuwatna; however, with the end of his reign, the Hittite Empire enters a temporary "Dark Ages", 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 prince – a son of the first rank only be installed as king! If a prince of the first rank does not exist, (then) let he who is a son of second rank become king. But if there is no prince, no male issue, (then) let them take an antiyant-husband for she who is a first rank 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.^[4]

External links

Reign of Telipinu

Notes

↑ The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile by Jeremy M. Hutton
↑ Birgit Brandau, Hartmut Schickert: Hethiter Die unbekannte Weltmacht
↑ The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce
↑ Biography and family of King Telepinu

Preceded by Huzziya I	Hittite king ca. 1460 BC	Succeeded by Alluwamna

Hittite kings

Hattic kings

c. 23rd–18th centuries BC	Pamba Pithana Piyusti Anitta Tudhaliya PU-Sarruma

Old Kingdom

c. 16th–15th centuries BC	Labarna I Hattusili I Mursili I Hantili I Zidanta I Ammuna Huzziya I Telipinu

Middle Kingdom

c. mid-to-late 15th century BC	Alluwamna Tahurwaili Hantili II Zidanta II Huzziya II Muwatalli I

New Kingdom

c. 14th–12th centuries BC	Tudhaliya I Arnuwanda I Hattusili II Tudhaliya II Tudhaliya III Suppiluliuma I Arnuwanda II Mursili II Muwatalli II Mursili III Hattusili III Tudhaliya IV Arnuwanda III Suppiluliuma II

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Name	Telipinu
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Short description	Hittite king
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