Ashur-rim-nisheshu

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Ashur-rim-nisheshu
Issi'ak Assur
King of Assur
Reignc. 1408–1401 BC[1]
PredecessorAshur-bel-nisheshu
SuccessorAshur-nadin-ahhe II
IssueAshur-nadin-ahhe II
FatherAshur-bel-nisheshu

Aššur-rā’im-nišēšu, inscribed mdaš-šur-ÁG-UN.MEŠ-šu, meaning “(the god)

Assyrian King List. He is best known for his reconstruction of the inner city wall of Aššur
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Biography

Messerschmidt’s line art for Aššur-rā’im-nišēšu’s memorial cone.[i 1]

All three extant Assyrian Kinglists[i 2][i 3][i 4] give his filiation as “son of Aššur-bēl-nišēšu," the monarch who immediately preceded him, but this is contradicted by the sole extant contemporary inscription, a cone giving a dedicatory inscription for the reconstruction of the wall of the inner city of Aššur, which gives his father as Aššur-nērārī II (written phonetically on the third line of the illustration),[3] the same as his predecessor who was presumably therefore his brother. With Ber-nādin-aḫḫe, another son of Aššur-nērārī who was given the title "supreme judge," it seems he may have been the third of Aššur-nērārī's sons to rule.[4]

The cone identifies the previous restorers as Kikkia, Ikunum (1867–1860 BC), Sargon I (1859 BC – ?), Puzur-Aššur II, and Aššur-nārāri I (1547–1522 BC) the son of Ishme-Dagan II (1579–1562 BC).[5] The reference to Kikkia's original fortification of the city is repeated in one of the later king's, Salmānu-ašarēd III, own inscriptions.[6] It was recovered from an old adobe wall three meters from the northern edge of the ziggurat.[7]

He was succeeded by his son, Aššur-nadin-aḫḫē II.

Inscriptions

  1. ^ Cone VAT? 2764, first published KAH 1 no. 63 (1911).
  2. ^ Khorsabad Kinglist iii 7.
  3. ^ SDAS Kinglist iii 1.
  4. ^ Nassouhi Kinglist iii 11.

References

  1. ISBN 978-9004430914
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  2. ^ K. Radner (1998). The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Volume 1, Part I: A. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. p. 209.
  3. ^ J. A. Brinkman (1973). "Comments on the Nasouhi Kinglist and the Assyrian Kinglist Tradition". Orientalia. 42: 312.
  4. ^ B. Newgrosh (1999). "The Chronology of Ancient Assyria Re-assessed". Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum. 8: 80.
  5. ^ A. K. Grayson (1972). Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Volume I. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. pp. 39–40.
  6. ^ Hildegard Lewy (1966). The Cambridge Ancient History: Assyria c.2600-1816 B.C. p. 21.
  7. ^ L. Messerschmidt (1911). Keilschrifttexte aus Assur Historischen Inhalts, Erstes Heft. VDOG. p. xii.
Preceded by
King of Assyria

1408–1401 BC 		Succeeded by
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