Aplija

Aplija ( Aplīja ) was an Assyrian civil servant under King Tiglath-pileser I.

He is mentioned on over 20 cuneiform documents and was - probably during the second half of the reign of Tiglath-pileser I - " abarakku / mašennu rabi'u " (grand (palace) administrator). He held this office in the eponym years of Taklāk-ana-Aššur, Gadi'u, Ninurta-aha-iddina, Kidin-Aššur, Sîn-apla-iddina and Aššur-kettī-šēsi and was himself an eponym officer ( limu , LTBA 160.23) what was reserved for the highest strata of the Assyrian upper class.

Since only fragmentary lists of eponyms are available for the Central Assyrian period , his life data cannot be narrowed down more precisely.

literature

• Veysel Donbaz, Amir Harrak: The Middle Assyrian Eponymy of Kidin-Aššur. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies. Vol. 41, No. 2, 1989, ISSN  0022-0256 , pp. 217-225.
• Helmut Freydank : Contributions to Central Assyrian chronology and history (= writings on the history and culture of the ancient Orient. Vol. 21). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-001814-3 , pp. 88f. (At the same time: Berlin, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, dissertation, 1987).
• Stefan Jakob: Central Assyrian administration and social structure. Investigations (= Cuneiform Monographs 29). Brill et al., Leiden et al. 2003, ISBN 90-04-12398-9 , pp. 94-110.