Luhuti

Luhuti, Lukhuti or Lu'ash, was an Iron Age Syro-Hittite Aramean region during the early 1st millennium BC located in northern Syria, in an area that used to be called Nuhašše.

[1] Luhuti was a region of uncertain political status, known primarily from Assyrian inscriptions,[1] and the stele of king Zakkur of Hamath.

[2] Luhuti is never attested as a kingdom of its own or as having a single central authority,[3] although it did constitute an independent interconnected region.

[4] Ashurnasirpal devastated the country, impaled Luhuti soldiers on stakes outside their captured cities.

Hawkins believes that Zakkur was an Aramean usurper local to Luhuti who replaced the old Hittite dynasty ruling in Hamath.

Zakkur Stele Discovered at Hatarikka