Sulili ( akk, 𒋢𒇷𒇷, Su-li-li) was according to the ''
Assyrian King List
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
'' (AKL) the 27th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's
early period. He also appears within the Assyrian King List as the first out of the six kings “(whose names were written on?) bricks whose
eponyms are (not known?)". Additionally, it is stated within the Assyrian King List that he was the successor of and “son of Aminu". Aminu had himself been the son of and successor of
Ila-kabkabu, and Aminu and
Ila-kabkabu were among the ten kings “who are ancestors".
The section within the Assyrian King List “kings who are ancestors/whose fathers are known”
(which, in contrast to the rest of the list, was written in reverse order, beginning with Aminu and ending with Apiashal), has often been interpreted as a list of
Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad ( akk, Šamši-Adad; Amorite: ''Shamshi-Addu''), ruled 1808–1776 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 ...
's ancestors.
In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the Assyrian King List had been written, among other things, as an “attempt to justify that Shamshi-Adad I was a legitimate ruler of the city-state Assur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native
Assyrian
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyri ...
genealogy.”
However, this interpretation has not been accepted universally; the ''
Cambridge Ancient History'' rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as the ancestors of Sulili.
[Hildegard Levy, "Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.", ''Cambridge Ancient History. Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East'', 729-770, p. 745-746.)] Sulili is also shown as being the predecessor of
Kikkia Kikkia (sometimes given as Kikkiya), inscribed m''Ki-ik-ki-a'Khorsabad Kinglist'', i 23.''SDAS Kinglist'', i 22. was according to the ''Assyrian King List'' (AKL) the 28th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. He is listed within a ...
within the Assyrian King List.
A man by the name "Silulu" is attested as an early ruler of Assur by contemporary seals. He is perhaps possible to identify with the otherwise unattested Sulili, but the inscription identifies Silulu's father as Dakiki, "herald of the city of Ashur", which does not fit with the genealogy of the ''Assyrian King List''.
See also
*
Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
*
Early Period of Assyria
*
List of Assyrian kings
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
*
Assyrian continuity
Assyrian continuity is the theory of continuity between the modern Assyrian people, an indigenous ethnic minority in the Middle East, and the people of ancient Assyria. Assyrian continuity is a key part of the identity of the modern Assyrian pe ...
*
Assyrian people
References
21st-century BC Assyrian kings
20th-century BC Assyrian kings
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