Tudiya or Tudia (Akkadian: 𒂅𒁲𒅀, romanized: Ṭu-di-ia) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the first Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period, though he is not attested in any known contemporary artefacts.
[1] He is listed among the “seventeen kings who lived in tents.”[2][3] His existence is unconfirmed archaeologically and uncorroborated by any other source.
[4] Tudiya is succeeded on the Assyrian King List by Adamu and then a further fifteen rulers: Yangi, Suhlamu, Harharu, Mandaru, Imsu, Harsu, Didanu, Hana, Zuabu, Nuabu, Abazu, Belu, Azarah, Ushpia, and Apiashal.
This entire reading is now questionable, as several scholars have more recently argued that this treaty in question, the Treaty between Ebla and Abarsal, was not with king Tudiya of Assur at all, but rather with the unnamed king of an uncertain location called "Abarsal".
These kings had at some point become fully urbanized and founded the city-state of Assur.