Ila-kabkabū

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Ila-kabkabū (also Ila-kabkabi or Ilu-kabkabi ) was an Amorite tribal prince with a power center in the area around Terqa or Ekallatum and, according to the Assyrian King List , he was the father of the Assyrian King Šamši-Adad I.

According to Mari's eponym list , Ila-kabkabū undertook campaigns in the region around Mari and was able to conquer the city of Suprum . Correspondence found in Mari shows that he was initially allied with Jaggid-Lim , King of Mari. However, he later waged war against both him and his son Jaḫdun-Lim . This forced Šamši-Adad I possibly to flee to Babylon before he returned from there and conquered all of northern Mesopotamia.

The Assyrian list of kings leads Ila-kabkabū not only as the father of Šamši-Adad I, but also in the second section under “kings who are ancestors”. There he stands as the 25th ruler, father and predecessor of Aminu . Some historians therefore suspect that he and nine other ancestors were actually not Assyrian kings. Instead, as the conqueror of Aššur, Šamši-Adad I simply added his ancestors to the list in order to legitimize his claim to power. However, this view is not shared by all historians. According to the opposite view, there were two different rulers with just the same name.

literature

  • Yuhong Wu: A Political History of Eshnunna, Mari and Assyria during the early Old Babylonian Period (= Journal of Ancient Civilizations . Supplement 1). Institute of History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 1994, pp. 66-70.
  • 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. ↑ Klaas R. Veenhof , History of the Old Orient up to the time of Alexander the Great (= The Old Testament German. Supplementary series. Outlines of the Old Testament, Vol. 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-51685-1 , p. 310.
  2. ^ Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards , The Cambridge Ancient History , Vol. 1, Part 2. Cambridge University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-521-07791-5 . P. 746.
personal data
SURNAME Ila-kabkabū
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Amorite tribal prince and father of Šamši-Adads I.
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century BC BC or 18th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 18th century BC Chr.