Artatama II.

Artatama II was a king of Mitanni mid-14th century BC

Artatama made ​​mid-14th century BC the ruler of Mittani, Tushratta, the rule in dispute, where he was from Ashur uballit I., king of Assyria, and Suppiuliuma I, the great king of the Hittites, supported. This also received no help from the allied Egypt, so Suppiuliuma an ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Mitanni undertook to overthrow Tushratta. A few years later it succeeded Artatama and Tushratta came to death. The now large influence of the Assyrians in Mitanni seems to have been the reason for the new page the Hittites, the legitimate heir to the throne Mittanis, Šattiwazza, granting asylum and whose claims tried to bring to campaigns against Artatama. Artatama had a son named Šuttarna.

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