Lullaya

Lullaia or Lullaya, inscribed in cuneiform phonetically ^mlu-ul-la-a-a,^{[i 1][i 2]} a hypocoristic name, was the 53rd king of Assyria to be added to the Assyrian King List. He was a “son of a nobody,” i.e. unrelated to a previous monarch, and reigned six years, from c. 1621–1616 BC, during a quiet and uneventful period in Assyrian history.^[2] Reade speculates that he may be identified with the earlier king, Aššūr-dugul, on the basis of their similar lengths of reign and lack of royal parentage.^[3]

He was the last in the sequence of kings omitted from the dissident Assyrian Kinglist known as KAV 14,^{[i 3]} which otherwise provides the only extant sequence of Shamshi-Adad I’s later successors, Mut-Ashkur and Rimush.^[4] The Synchronistic Kinglist^{[i 4]} gives his Babylonian counterpart as Ayadaragalama of the Sealand Dynasty.^[5] There are no extant inscriptions from Lullaia's or his predecessor's reigns in marked contrast with their Sealand contemporaries.^[2]

He was succeeded by Shu-Ninua, the son of his predecessor, Bazaya, for whom he may have acted as regent until reaching his majority as there is no tradition that Lullaia was a usurper.