Akizzi

Akizzi or Aki-Teššup/Aki-Tešup/Aki-Teschup ( Darbringend is Teššup ) is the name of the last king of Qatna. Around 1340 BC, the Kingdom of Qatna, which had previously been subject to the Egyptian governor Biruaza, destroyed by the Hittites. Akizzi was the son of Taku and had a brother named Takuwa. He was mittanischer descent.

In the Amarna archive have four letters of Akizzi of Amenhotep III. receive. In this time of the uprising of the Aitakama of Kadesh, the advance of Aziru of Amurru and the first campaign of the Hittite Suppiuliuma I. in northern Syria falls. The letters of the kings of Nuhašše, Tunip and Rib-Addi of Byblos ask everyone for help against Aziru. Akizzi wrote another letter (EA 59) Akhenaten to without getting the required support.