Kuzi-Teshub

[3] Kuzi-Teshub reigned in Carchemish as well as in the later Neo-Hittite city of Melid.

In Carchemish, Kuzi-Teshub succeeded his father in office, probably first as viceroy,[1] according to royal seal impressions found at Lidar Höyük in 1985 on the east bank of the Euphrates river.

[3] Kuzi-Teshub then styled himself as Great King of Carchemish, suggesting that the central Hittite dynasty at Hattusa had collapsed by this time and that he viewed himself as the legitimate heir of the line of Suppiluliuma I.

[1] Kuzi-Teshub is not proved to have ruled directly as King of Melid.

The references to Kuzi-Teshub in his grandsons' inscriptions may indicate that Melid had peacefully separated from Carchemish.