Aššur-etil-ilani
Aššur-etil-ilani ( Ashur-etil-ilani, Assur-etil-ilani ) succeeded his father Aššur-bāni-apli (biblical name Ashurbanipal ) as king of Assyria on the throne and presumably ruled in 631 BC. BC to 627 BC Chr. His name means Ashur is lord of the gods .
Aššur-bāni-apli is a predecessor to 631 BC. In Nippur . Aššur-etil-ilani followed from 631/630 BC at the latest . BC as the new king and ruled around the same time as the Babylonian king Kandalanu , who was given the appropriate powers by his father.
His general and later successor Sin-šumu-lišir received powers from Aššur-etil-ilani, which empowered him to rule over Assyria. Aššur-etil-ilani is attested in private documents up to his fourth year of reign. The later Babylonian king Nabonid mentioned him as a king who ruled between Aššur-bāni-apli and Nabû-apla-uṣur (biblical name Nabopolassar ). In the Babylonian Chronicle, Aššur-etil-ilani is not listed as the "King of Babylonia", but rather its general Sin-šumu-lišir, who took over the rule there for a short time after the death of Kandalanu.
literature
- Dietz-Otto Edzard : History of Mesopotamia. From the Sumerians to Alexander the Great . CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51664-5 .
- Dietz-Otto Edzard: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-004451-X , p. 271 .
- Stefan Zawadski: The fall of Assyria and Median-Babylonia relations in light of the Nabopolassar Chronicle . In: Seria historia . Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Posen 1988, ISBN 978-83-232-0122-9 ( online at caeno.org [PDF]).
Web links
- Nabopolassar chronicle the early years (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
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Ashur-bāni-apli Ashurbanipal |
Assyrian king 631–627 BC Chr. |
Sîn-šumu-līšir |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aššur-etil-ilani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Assyria 630 BC BC-627 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 627 BC Chr. |