Erība-Adad II, inscribed
mSU-
dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the 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 ...
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.
Biography
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
Šamši-Adad I. 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
Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I, for which he styled himself “king of the four quarters.”
He would have appeared on a destroyed section of the
eponym
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list designated as Cc.
[Eponym List VAT 11254, (KAV 21).]
He was one of the restorers of the ''é.ḫur.sağ.kur.kur.ra'', “House, Mountain of the Lands,” or the
cella
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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.] The Synchronistic Kinglist gives his name, but the
Babylonian counterpart is illegible, possibly having been
Simbar-Šipak 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. His rule came to an end when Šamši-Adad “went up
Kardunaš He drove Erība-Adad, , from the throne.”
An
Assur, Aššur 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".
Inscriptions
References
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11th-century BC Assyrian kings