Lutipri is a possible founder of the royal dynasty of Urartu .
Very little data has been preserved about the period of the formation of Urartu , and it is assumed that Aram , the first king of the united Urartu, is about 844 BC. e. succeeded by Sarduri I , the son of Lutipri. In Urartu, the processes of uniting individual “ Nairi tribes” into a centralized state took place at that time, and thus it is likely that Aram and Lutipri led two large tribal formations in Urartu, and the top of the Lutipri tribe finally won the power struggle in a centralized state . Whether Lutipri himself was the king of Urartu at some period after the reign of Arama and before the reign of his son Sarduri I, remains unclear.
There is an opinion that the name “Lutipri” is Hurrian [1] , which is consistent with the theory of the Hurrian origin of the Urartu tribes.
Literature
- Melikishvili G. A. Urartian wedge-shaped inscriptions . - Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960.
- Piotrovsky B. B. Van Kingdom (Urartu) / Otv. ed. I.A. Orbeli . - Moscow: Publishing House of Oriental Literature, 1959. - 286 p. - 3500 copies.
Notes
- ↑ Götze, Albrecht . Hethiter, Churriter und Assyrer; Hauplinien der vorderasiatischen Kulturentwicklung im II. Oslo, H. Aschehoug; Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1936