Ašarēd-apil-Ekur, inscribed
m''a-šá-rid-''
A-É.KUR[Khorsabad Kinglist: iii 41.] or
mSAG.KAL-DUMU.UŠ-É.KUR[SDAS Kinglist iii 27.] and variants,
[Nassouhi Kinglist iv 8: sup>mSG-A-É.KUR.] meaning “the heir of the
Ekur is foremost,” was the son and successor of
Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I as king of
Assyria
Assyria ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the ...
, reigning for just two years, 1076/5–1074 BC, during the turmoil that engulfed the end of that lengthy reign, and he was the 88th king to appear on the Assyrian King List. His reign marked the elevation of the office of ''ummânu'', “royal scribe,” and he was the first to have this recorded next to the king’s name on the ''Synchronistic King List'',
[Synchronistic King List, KAV 216 (ass. 14616c), ii 18.] possibly identifying the contemporary redactor of this list.
Biography
According to an early reading of the ''Synchronistic King List'',
[ he was a contemporary of the Babylonian king Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, c. 1140–1132 BC, where this monarch had perhaps been relocated to follow Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, c. 1099-1082 BC. This part of the ]cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sh ...
text is now lost[ Current theories of chronological succession suggest Marduk-šāpik-zēri, c. 1082–1069 BC, may have been his Babylonian counterpart, with Rowton suggesting synchronizing the two-year reign of Ašarēd-apil-Ekur with this king's 5th and 6th years.][KAV 21 iii 13, as .. A-É.KUR.]Eriba-Adad II Erība-Adad II, inscribed mSU-dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the king of Assyria 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 ...
, then his other brother Šamši-Adad IV.
Inscriptions
References
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11th-century BC Assyrian kings