Arukku

Arukku ( Assyrian A-ru-uk-ku, Old Persian Harriukqa / Hariuwuka, Iranian Aryavuka / Aryuka, Aramaic Aryuk ; * before 656 BC..) was the eldest son of King Kuras (Cyrus I) from Parsumaš .

In connection with the destruction of Susa, the actual resolution of the kingdom of Elam by Ashurbanipal, sent Kuras (Cyrus I) his son Arukku 639 v. Chr. by Nineveh to the supremacy of the Assyrians recognize. The distinction made equating Parsua with Parsumaš would mean that the referenced herein Cyrus is or had meanwhile taken over the sovereignty of one of many kings. 835 v. Chr., In the 24th year of the reign of Shalmaneser III. , Parsua is a country with 27 kings mentioned[1]

Traditional Identifications

Traditionally Arukku is usually the son of Cyrus I identified. The mention serves as proof for the oldest message on the Persian royal family .[2] This was followed by the derivation that Cambyses I must have been another son. According to this chronology, already occurs as a father and king of Cyrus, the birth of Cyrus would be no later than 680 to 675 v. Chr. To be set.[3]

Alternative Explanations

The Kyros mentioned by Ashurbanipal was in no vassal status, but gave voluntary gifts to Assyria to receive friendly relations with the new neighbor. However, these gifts were in the Assyrian king lists as a tribute noted.[4] The traditional derivation is called by some historians to be not mandatory, since the age of Cyrus to be too high and the reading of the name Arukkus as unsafe referred wird[5]

Doubts about the identification

Other historians doubt the equation of Parsumaš with Parsa and comment on the traditional identifications as obsolete and refuted .[6]

References

  1. ↑ Dietz Otto Edzard: history of Mesopotamia , S. 198th
  2. ↑ Ernst Friedrich Weidner : The oldest message via the Persian royal house; Cyrus I was a contemporary of Assurbanipal . In: AfO , Vol 7 (1931/32), pp 1-7. ISSN 0066-6440 .
  3. ↑ Arukku than 17-year-old son in 639 v. Chr results. a birth year of the latest 656 v. Chr .; his father Cyrus was at least 19 years old in the year of birth of Arukku
  4. ↑ Dietz Otto Edzard: history of Mesopotamia , S. 226th
  5. ↑ Reinhold Bichler: Herodotus world , S. 256th
  6. ↑ Klaas Veenhof: History of the Ancient Near East until the time of Alexander the Great , S. 274th