Aššur-reš-iši II.

Aššur-reš-iši II. ( Ashur-resch-ischi ) was king of Assyria from about 971 BC. BC to 967 BC Chr.

He succeeded his father Aššur-rabi II on the throne. Little is known about his relatively short reign; the epoch is considered to be the Dark Age of Assyria because of the poor sources. Its name is missing from the SDAS list , but it can still be reconstructed with some certainty. His great-grandson Adad-nirari II describes him in an inscription as a “mighty king who crushed the enemy”, which is hardly historically correct. He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-apil-Ešarra II.

literature

Karen Radner (ed.): The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Vol. 1, Part 1, The Neo-assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998, p. 213.
Trevor Rice: Eastern Mediterranean late Bronze Age Chronology.
Ernst Friedrich Weidner : Aššurrešiši II. In: Erich Ebeling , Bruno Meissner (Hg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Vol. 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1928, p. 223 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Aššur-rabi II.	Assyrian king	Tukulti-apil-Ešarra II.

personal data
SURNAME	Aššur-reš-iši II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Assur-resch-ischi II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Assyrian king
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century BC BC or 10th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	967 BC Chr.