Tudhaliya

Tudḫaliya is the name of several Hittite kings or royals. It is not clear how many kings bore that name, and numbering schemes vary from source to source.

  • Tudḫaliya (sometimes called Tudḫaliya I) is deduced from his early placement in a later offering list as a hypothetical pre-Empire king who might have reigned in the early 17th century BC.[1]
  • Tudḫaliya I (sometimes considered identical with the following, as Tudḫaliya I/II [2]), ruled in the mid-15th century BC, son of Kantuzzili.[3]
  • Tudḫaliya II (sometimes considered identical with the preceding, as Tudḫaliya I/II [4] or renumbered as Tudḫaliya I [5]), ruled at the start of the 14th century BC, father-in-law of Arnuwanda I.[6]
  • Tudḫaliya III (sometimes renumbered as Tudḫaliya II [7]), in the early 14th century BC, the son of Arnuwanda I and predecessor of Šuppiluliuma I.[8]
  • Tudḫaliya the Younger (sometimes numbered as Tudḫaliya III [9]), in the mid-14th century BC, the son of Tudḫaliya III, he probably never reigned.[10]
  • Tudḫaliya IV (very rarely renumbered as Tudḫaliya III [11]), ruled around 1230 BC, the son of Ḫattušili III.[12]
  • Tudḫaliya V possibly ruled around 1180 BC, perhaps the son of Šuppiluliuma II.[13]
  • Tudḫaliya, Neo-Hittite king(s) of Carchemish, fl. c. 1100 BC
  1. ^ Forlanini 1993 conjectures that this king corresponds to the great-grandfather of Hattusili I, but later abandoned this idea; Bryce 2005: 406, n. 3 doubts this interpretation; Freu 2007a: 37-39 and Freu 2007b: 30-32 consider this a possible reference to Tudḫaliya I below.
  2. ^ Bryce 2005.
  3. ^ Bryce 2005: xv, 122-123; Freu 2007b: 18-32.
  4. ^ Bryce 2005.
  5. ^ Beckman 2000.
  6. ^ Bryce 2005: xv, 122-123; Freu 2007b: 18-32.
  7. ^ Beckman 2000.
  8. ^ Bryce 2005: xv, 145.
  9. ^ Beckman 2000.
  10. ^ Beckman 2000: 24; Bryce 2005: 154-155; Freu 2007b: 199-200.
  11. ^ Breyer 2010.
  12. ^ Bryce 2005: xv, 295.
  13. ^ Simon 2009: 262-264.