Qibi-Ashur

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Qibi-Aššur ( m KI-BI- d Aš-šur), also Babylonian ( m Ki-pi- d Aš-šur, command of Aššur ), son of Ibašši-ilī, grandson of Adad-nīrārī I , was an Assyrian vizier under Shalmaneser I. and Tukultī-Ninurta I.

title

Qibi-Aššur held the eponymate of Tukultī-Ninurtas in the second (full) year of reign, which suggests his high position at the court. There is also a stele of his great-grandson Aššur-mudammeq, which identifies him as the holder of the following two titles:

  • sukkallu rabi'u = grand vizier. Under the kings Shalmaneser I and Tukultī-Ninurta I, he held the office of grand vizier, which probably made him the most powerful man after the king. In the Central Assyrian period the office of grand vizier was closely connected with the office of king of Hanigalbat .
  • šar māt Hanigalbat = King of Hanigalbat. As the first king of Hanigalbat, he ruled over a large part of the former Mitanni . The area he controlled extended mainly along the rivers Hābūr and Bālih . A center of his government was Dūr-Katlimmu .

Life

According to a report by the Babylonian envoy in Aššur , Zikir-ilišu, which was found in Dur-Kurigalzu , Qibi-Aššur was also responsible for the submission of the Hirānu and Hasmu - perhaps tribes of the Aḫlamū - whom he pursued with 100 chariots .

family

Qibi-Aššur comes from a branch of the Assyrian royal family and was a grandson of King Adad-nīrārī I. His great-grandson Ninurta-apil-Ekur finally achieved the dignity of king. Ninurta-apil-Ekur describes himself as a descendant of Erība-Adad and son of Ilī-pada .

During the reign of Shalmaneser I and his successors, Qibi-Aššur's branch line included some of the most powerful people in the Central Assyrian Empire, e. B .:

  • Father: Ibašši-ilī (son of Adad-nīrārī I .; mār šarre = king's son, līmu = eponym)
  • Brother: Mudammeq-Nusku (son of Ibašši-ilī; līmu = eponym)
  • Sons:
    • Aššur-dammeq (son of Qibi-Aššur; līmu = eponym)
    • Aššur-iddin (son of Qibi-Aššur; sukkallu rabi'u = grand vizier, šar māt Hanigalbat = king of Hanigalbat)
  • Grandson:
    • Aššur-zēra-iddina (son of Aššur-dammeq; līmu = eponym)
    • Qarrād-Aššur (son of Aššur-iddin; līmu = eponym)
    • Ninu'āju (son of Aššur-iddin; līmu = eponym)
    • Salmānu-mušabši (son of Aššur-iddin?; Sukkallu rabi'u = grand vizier)
    • Ilī-padâ (son of Aššur-iddin; līmu = eponym, sukkallu rabi'u = grand vizier, šar māt Hanigalbat = king of Hanigalbat)
  • Great-grandchildren:
    • Ninurta-apil-Ekur (son of Ilī-padâ; King of Assyria, līmu = eponym)
    • Samēdu (son of Aššur-zēra-iddina; līmu = eponym, šaknu = prefect of Ninu'a )
    • Aššur-mudammeq (son of Aššur-zēra-iddina; līmu = eponym, šaknu = prefect of Ninu'a)
    • Mardukīja (son of Ilī-padâ; līmu = eponym, bēl pāhete = governor of Halahhu , šaknu = prefect of Katmuḫḫi )
  • Great-great-grandchildren:
    • Erû-apla-iddina (son of Samēdu; līmu = eponym, sukkallu rabi'u = grand vizier, šar māt Hanigalbat = king of Hanigalbat, bēl pāhete / šaknu = governor / prefect of Halahhu)
    • Aššur-dān I. (son of Ninurta-apil-Ekur; king of Assyria, līmu = eponym)

literature

  • Walter Andrae : The rows of steles in Assur (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society 24). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913.
  • 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. 25-26.
  • Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum : subsidiary lines of the Assyrian royal family . In: Ancient Near Eastern Research . Volume 26, 1999, pp. 210-222.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Helmut Freydank: On the eponymous sequences of the 13th century BC In Dūr-Katlimmu. In: Altorientalische Forschungen 32 (2005), p. 49.
  2. ^ Walter Andrae: The rows of stelae in Assur (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society 24). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913, p. 61 (No. 63).
  3. ^ Stefan Jakob: Central Assyrian administration and social structure (= Cuneiform Monographs 29). Leiden and Boston 2003, p. 224.
  4. ↑ Oliver R. Gurney: Texts from Dur-Kurigalzu . In: Iraq 11 (1949), pp. 139-141.
  5. ^ Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum: Branch lines of the Assyrian royal family . In: Altorientalische Forschungen 26 (1999), pp. 210–222, as well as Stefan Jakob: Mittelassyrische Verwaltung und Sozialstruktur , pp. 64f.
personal data
SURNAME Qibi-Ashur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Assyrian vizier
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 13th century BC Chr.