Courage Aškur

Mut-Aškur ( Mut-Aschkur, Mut-Askur ) was a son of the Assyrian king Išme-Dagan I. According to the Assyrian king list , Aššur-dugul was the successor of Išme-Dagan. VAT 9812 on the other hand names Mut-Aškur and after him Re-mu- [x], both of which do not appear in the other lists. Benno Landsberger even accepts a third king after Re-mu- [x], whose name has not been preserved. Documents from Mari may confirm the Mut-Aškur government.

Gasche et al. assume, however, that Mut-Aškur and his successors only ruled Ekallatum , but not Aššur , perhaps in parallel with Aššur-dugul and his successors. Mut-Aškur may have been brought to the throne by Atumrum , an Elam puppet . His accession to the throne falls between the 31st and 33rd centuries. Year of reign of Hammurabi . According to medium chronology, this corresponds to around 1760 BC. Chr.

He and Re-mu- [x] ruled for 29 years; Reade puts them in his revised chronology from 1668 to 1640.

literature

• D. Charpin / J.-M. Durand: Aššur avant l'Assyrie. In: MARI 8, 1997, pp. 372-373.
• H. Gasche et al .: Dating the fall of Babylon: A re-appraisal of Second-Millennium chronology: A joint Ghent-Chicago-Harvard project. Mesopotamian history and environment, Series 2. Memoires 3 (Ghent and Chicago 1998).
• Benno Landsberger: Assyrian King List and Dark Ages.
• Julian Reade: Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of Ur, and Indus Origins. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 601, 2001, pp. 1-29.

predecessor	Office	successor
Išme-Dagan I.	Assyrian king	Aššur-dugul (possibly initially Rīmu [š])