Ikūnum

Ikūnum was according to the Assyrian king list the 34th king of Assyria in ancient Assyrian times . He succeeded his father Ērišum I as the fifth king in the Puzur-Aššur dynasty and ruled for 14 years (1870 to 1857 BC and 1934 to 1921 BC).

After a much later, under his successor Salmānu-ašarēd III. in Assur, he made extensive construction work in Aššur on the city wall and the temple of Ereškigal . Incidentally, he continued his father's work in expanding and protecting the Assyrian trading posts in Asia Minor . This is attested above all by several inscriptions attached at the time in the Kaniš settlement , today's lower town of the Kültepe archaeological site in Turkey . The eponym list , which completely covers his reign, also comes from finds from there . A register in which the names of the highest officials līmu appointed for one year and the most important events for each of these years are recorded.

literature

• A. Kirk Grayson: Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennium BC , Toronto 1987, pp. 41-44.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Klaas R. Veenhof , Jesper Eidem: Mesopotamia . Ed .: Markus Wäfler. Approaches 5. Saint-Paul, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-53452-6 ( full text in Google book search).
2. ↑ Cahit Günbattı: An eponym List (KEL G) from Kültepe Altoriental . In: Ancient Near Eastern Research . tape XXXV , no. 1 , 2008, p. 103-132 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ērišum I.	Assyrian King 1934–1921 BC Chr.	Sarru-kīn I.