Ilī-padâ

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Ilī-padâ (formerly also read as Ili-Hadda) was a high Central Assyrian dignitary of the 13th and 12th centuries BC. BC (died around 1180 BC).

He was a descendant of Eriba-Adad I (1390-1364 BC) and Grand Vizier ( sukallu rabi'u ) and King ( šar ) of Hanigalbat under Aššur-nārāri III. (1202-1197 BC). He must have possessed great power, as Adad-šuma-uṣur of Babylon addresses him in a letter as King of Assyria. R. Borger assumes that this was simply meant as an insult to the real king, which would agree with the other tone of the letter, which accuses the kings of laziness and drunkenness.

Ilī-pada had to go into exile in Kardunias, but his son Ninurta-apil-ekur succeeded in usurping the Assyrian throne , presumably with the help of Kassite. In some of his inscriptions he describes himself as the son of Eriba-Adad, not of Ilī-padâ, so perhaps he wants to suppress the memory of his rebellious father.

literature

  • Michael Astour: The Hurrian king at the siege of Emar. In: Mark W. Chavalas (Ed.), Emar, the history, religion and culture of a Syrian town in the late Bronze Age . Bethesda 1996, pp. 25-6.
  • Albert Kirk Grayson : Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 1: From the beginning to Ashur-resha-ishi I. (= Records of the Ancient Near East 1). Wiesbaden 1972.
  • Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum : subsidiary lines of the Assyrian royal family . In: Altorientalische Forschungen 26, 1999, pp. 210–222.
personal data
SURNAME Ilī-padâ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Central Assyrian dignitary
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 12th century BC Chr.