Erība-Adad II, inscribed
mSU-
dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the king of
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...
1056/55–1054 BC, the 94th to appear on the ''Assyrian Kinglist''.
[''SDAS Kinglist'', iii 31.][''Nassouhi Kinglist'', iv 12.] He was the son of
Aššur-bēl-kala whom he briefly succeeded and was deposed by his uncle
Šamši-Adad IV.
Reign
The ''Khorsabad kinglist''
[''Khorsabad Kinglist'', iii 45,] mistakenly gives him as a son of Ilu-kabkabi, i.e. the father of the 18th century BC king
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad (; Amorite: ''Shamshi-Addu''), ruled 1813–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.Some of the Mari letters addressed to Shamsi-Adad by his son ca ...
. Despite his short two-year reign, there are fragmentary inscriptions
[Clay cone fragment from Nineveh BM 123467, 6 lines.][Part of a clay tablet Rm-II.261 (RIMA 2 A.0.90.1), 7.] where he claims his rule extended to the
Aramaeans and lists conquests far and wide in intense military campaigns, imitating those of
Tiglath-Pileser I
Tiglath-Pileser I (; from the Hebraic form of , "my trust is in the son of Ešarra") was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period (1114–1076 BC). According to Georges Roux, Tiglath-Pileser was "one of the two or three great Assyri ...
, for which he styled himself “king of the four quarters.”
He would have appeared on a destroyed section of the
eponym
An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word ''eponym'' include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''.
Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovati ...
list designated as Cc.
[Eponym List VAT 11254, (KAV 21).]
The Synchronistic Kinglist gives his name, but the
Babylon
Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...
ian counterpart is illegible, possibly having been
Simbar-shipak based on the sequence of kings before and after. This chronicle seems quite fanciful in its chronology during the Assyrian dark-age. In any case, the king
Adad-apla-iddina would have been his contemporary, sheltering his uncle, Šamši-Adad IV in political exile while he regrouped and planned his
putsch. Although Aššur-bēl-kala had married Adad-apla-iddina’s daughter, it seems unlikely that Adad-apla-iddina would have then participated in an effort to depose his own grandson, so it seems likely that Erība-Adad was the issue of another queen and the Babylonian king’s change of attitude due to earlier political events in Assyria.
Assur
An
Assur monumental stele (number 27) from the Stelenreihe, "row of stelae", has been attributed to him and is inscribed laconically: "Erība-adad, king of the universe". He was one of the restorers of the ''é.ḫur.sağ.kur.kur.ra'', "House, Mountain of the Lands", or the
cella of the temple of the god
Aššur, as commemorated in one of his inscriptions.
[K.2693 Part of a clay tablet, with holes, 13 + 5 lines (RIMA 2 A.0.90.1).] A fragmentary literary text is dated to his reign.
[Literary text, BM 98941.]
Usurpation
From Babylon, his rule came to an end when his exiled uncle Šamši-Adad “went up
Kardunaš He drove Erība-Adad, , from the throne.”
Inscriptions
References
Further reading
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11th-century BC Assyrian kings