Ila-kabkabu
The
Assyrian King List:[1]
- Ila-kabkabu (
- Ila-kabkabu of Terqa is also mentioned as the father of one other king named within the Assyrian King List: :163 Šamši-Adad I had subsequently conquered a wide territory and had emerged as the king of Assyria, where he had founded an Amorite dynasty.
Arising from the two appearances of the name "Ila-kabkabu" within two different places of the Assyrian King List, the “kings whose fathers are known” section has often, although not universallyAššur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native Assyrian genealogy.”[3] According to this interpretation, both instances of the name would refer to the same man, Šamši-Adad I's father, whose line would have been interpolated into the list.
See also
- Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
- List of Assyrian kings
- Assyria
References
- ^ ISBN 1589830903.
- Cambridge Ancient History, rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as the ancestors of Sulili, the kings mentioned immediately afterwards. (See 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.)
- ^ ISBN 3110100517.
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