Bazaya,Bāzāia orBāzāiu, inscribed^mba-za-a-a and of uncertain meaning, was the ruler ofAssyriac. 1649 to 1622 BC, the 52nd listed on theAssyrian King List, succeedingIptar-Sin, to whom he was supposedly a great-uncle. He reigned for twenty-eight years and has left no known inscriptions.^[2]

The Assyrian king lists^{[i 1][i 2][i 3]} give Bazaya's five predecessors as father-son successors, although all reigned during a fifty-two period, stretching genealogical credibility. All three extant copies give his father asBel-bani, the second in the sequence, whose reign had ended forty-one years earlier and who had been the great-grandfather of his immediate predecessor.^[3] The literal reading of the list was challenged by Landsberger who suggested that the three preceding kings,Libaya,Sharma-Adad I and Iptar-Sin may have beenBel-bani'sbrothers.^[4]

The Synchronistic Kinglist^{[i 4]} gives hisBabylonian counterpart asPeshgaldaramesh of the Sealand Dynasty. He was succeeded byLullaya, a usurper, whose brief reign was followed by that of Bāzāiu's own son,Shu-Ninua.^[5]

• 17th-century BC Assyrian kings

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