Aššur-nirari IV.

Aššur-nirari IV. ( Ashur-nirari, Assur-nirari ) was king of Assyria and ruled in 1018 BC. BC – 1013 BC His name means Assur is my salvation / my help .

He succeeded his father Shalmaneser II , after his death his uncle Aššur-rabi II became king. Because of the poor sources in this "dark age" of Assyria, little more is known of Aššur-nirari than the name and the length of his reign. During his reign, the līmu system of chronology, according to which a year is given as the Xth year of a ruler's reign, was suspended: the first year of his reign was called “Līmu Aššur-niraris”, the following years became “Xth year after the Līmu Aššur-niraris “. Aššur-nirari IV may have been overthrown by his successor.

literature

Karen Radner (ed.): The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Vol. 1, Part 1, The Neo-assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998, p. 208.
Ernst Friedrich Weidner : Aššurnirâri V. (sic!) In: Erich Ebeling , Bruno Meissner (ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Vol. 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1928, p. 221.

predecessor	Office	successor
Shalmaneser II	Assyrian king	Aššur-rabi II.

personal data
SURNAME	Aššur-nirari IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Assyrian king
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	1013 BC Chr.