Ashur-resh-ishi II

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Ashur-resh-ishi II
Aššur has lifted my head," was the king of Assyria, 971–967 BC, the 96th to be listed on the Assyrian Kinglist.[i 1][i 2] His short five-year reign is rather poorly attested and somewhat overshadowed by the lengthy reigns of his predecessor, Aššur-rabi II, and successor, Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II
.

Stele of Ashur-resh-ishi II, from the Row of Stelae (Stelenreihen) at Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum

Biography

He succeeded his father,

obliterated
.

Apart from the references to him in later copies of the Assyrian Kinglists and in the filiation of his grandson,

quay
-wall for a canal during Aššur-rabi II’s reign, and the reconstruction of the temple during Aššūr-reš-iši’s, in his clay cylinder inscription recovered from Aššur.

Inscriptions

  1. ^ Khorsabad Kinglist, tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), iv 10, 12.
  2. ^ Nassouhi Kinglist, Istanbul A. 116 (Assur 8836), iv 25, 27.
  3. ^ Synchronistic Kinglist, tablet Ass 14616c (KAV 216), iii 8.
  4. ^ Eponym List KAV 21, tablet VAT 11254, v.
  5. ^ Stele RIMA 2 A.0.96.1 :2.
  6. ^ Cylinder inscription of Bēl-ereš, RIMA 2 A.0.96.2001:16.

References

  1. ^ J. A. Brinkman (1968). A Political History of Post-Kassite Babylonia, 1158–722 B.C. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum. pp. 28–29.
  2. ^ K. Fabritius (1998). "Aššūr-rēšī-išši". In K. Radner (ed.). The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part I: A. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. p. 213.
  3. ^ Allison Karmel Thomason (2006). Luxury And Legitimation: Royal Collecting In Ancient Mesopotamia. Ashgate Pub Co. p. 110.

Further reading

Preceded by
King of Assyria

972–967 BC 		Succeeded by
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