Ushpia

Ushpia was an early Assyrian king who ruled c. 2030 BC, according to the Assyrian King List (AKL), as one of the "kings who lived in tents".

Ushpia is also alleged to have founded the temple of Ashur at the city of Assur, according to the much later inscriptions of Shalmaneser I (13th century BC) and Esarhaddon (8th century BC). However, he has yet to be confirmed by contemporary artifacts and nothing else of him is known.

He was succeeded on the AKL by Apiashal.[1]

Arthur Ungnad interpreted Ushpia's name, as well as that of Kikkia, as Hurrian (BA VI, 5, S. 13), but more recent research no longer holds this thesis as tenable. Even Arno Poebel wasn't convinced by the interpretation.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Georges Roux - Ancient Iraq
  2. ↑ Arno Poebel, The Assyrian King List from Khorsabad, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1/3, 1942, 253
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