Aššur-šaddûni or -šaduni, inscribed
m''aš-šur-''
KUR''-ú-ni''
[''Khorsabad Kinglist'' tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), ii 43.] or
sup>m''aš-šur-''Ksmall>UR''-u-ni''
[''SDAS Kinglist'', tablet IM 60484, ii 32.] and meaning “(the god)
Aššur (is) our mountain,”
was the ruler 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 ...
for just "one complete month"
(1
UTU UD.MEŠ''-te''
) during the 15th century BC, the 64th to appear on the ''
Assyrian King List
The king of Assyria (Akkadian language, Akkadian: , later ) 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 early history, Assyria was ...
''. He succeeded his father,
Nur-ili, but was ousted in a coup by his uncle,
Aššur-rabi I.
Reign and coup
There remains uncertainty concerning the dating of his accession, as the two subsequent Assyrian kings have unknown reign lengths, effectively disconnecting him and his predecessors from the firmer chronology of the later ''Assyrian King List''.
Although there are no extant contemporary inscriptions for him or his immediate predecessor or successors, his name appears on two of the ''Assyrian King Lists'' (''Khorsabad'' and ''SDAS'') and faintly at the end of the first column of the ''Synchronistic Kinglist'',
[''Synchronistic Kinglist'', Ass 14616c (KAV 216), i 25'.] level with where one of the successors' to
Kassite Babylonian king
Kaštiliašu III might be supposed to appear.
[
The King lists describe his overthrow: ''ina'' GIŠ.GU.ZA ''ú-šat-bi'' GIŠ.GU.ZA ''iṣ-bat'', "(Aššur-šaddûni) from the throne, he deposed, the throne he (Aššur-rabi) seized."][
]
Inscriptions
References
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15th-century BC Assyrian kings
Leaders ousted by a coup
Year of birth unknown