Aššur-reš-iši I.

Aššur-reš-iši I ( Aššur-rēša-iši; Ashur-resch-ischi, Assur-res-isi ) was the son of Mutakkil-Nušku and king of the Assyrian Empire . According to the Assyrian royal list , he ruled for 18 years.

author	Reign	Remarks
Cassin 1966	1133-1116 BC Chr.	middle chronology
Gasche et al. 1998	1132-1115	Ultra-short chronology
Freydank 1991	1132-1115

title

Aššur-rēša-iši called himself governor of the god Enlil , viceroy of Aššur ( išši'ak Aššur ), chosen from An , Enlil and Ea from the womb, whose sacrifices are loved by the gods of the upper world and the underworld, great sage, hero in battle, He who smashed the enemies of Aššur. In another text he also bears the title "King of the Circles of the World" and King of Assyria.

swell

The most important source during his reign is a clay cylinder from Nineveh , which exists in numerous fragments.

government

Aššur-rēša-iši boasts of his victories against the A dielamū , he claims to have "killed their far-flung hordes and crushed their troops". Victories against the Lullumu , Qutu and other hill tribes are also reported. He also moved against Arbail and Ninurta-nadin-šumati of Karduniash . When Nabu-kudurri-usur I besieged the city of Zanqi in Assyria, Aššur-reš-iši horrified the city with his chariots. Nabu-kudurri-usur burned its siege engines and withdrew. When Nabu-kudurri-usur attacked the fortress Idi, Aššur-rēša-iši attacked with chariots and infantry. He defeated the Babylonian troops, was able to take their camp and take Karaštu, Field Marshal Nabu-kudurri-usurs, prisoner.

Buildings

Aššur-rēša-iši rebuilt the gate towers on the gate lions of the Ištar temple in Nineveh, which had been damaged by earthquakes in the time of Shalmaneser I and Aššur-dan I , decorated them with stone rosettes and raised the facade of the temple by 35 brick layers. He also restored a warehouse ( bīt kutalli ). According to an inscription from Aššur, he built temples here for Adad , Anu and the Assyrian Ištar. Aššur-rēša-išī laid the foundation stone for the Apku palace , which another Assyrian king renewed after the broken obelisk . He also owned a palace in Apquša Adad ( Tell Marya ).

literature

• Helmut Freydank : Contributions to Central Assyrian chronology and history. Berlin 1991.
• Albert Kirk Grayson : Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 1: From the Beginning to Ashur-resha-ishi I. (= Records of the Ancient Near East 1). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1972. ISBN 3-447-01382-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grayson 960
2. ^ Kurt Jaritz, The problem of the "Broken Obelisk", Journal of Semitic Studies 4/3, 1959. 206

predecessor	Office	successor
Mutakkil-Nusku	Assyrian king	Tiglat-Pileser I.