Tašmetu-Šarrat

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Tašmetu-Šarrat was a wife of the Assyrian ruler Sin-ahhe-eriba (* around 745 BC; † January 16, 680 BC). Tašmetu-Šarrat was apparently only the ruler's mistress at first and was only referred to as wife in his last reign. Tašmetu-Šarrat had a stele in the row of steles of Assur , where otherwise only two other queens, next to numerous kings and high officials, a stele had been set up. The king also had a garden prepared for them in Nineveh .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Pettinato: Semiramis , Zurich, Munich 1991 ISBN 88-18-18003-7 , 35
  2. ↑ Stephanie Dalley, Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: cuneiform and classical sources reconciled . Iraq 56, 1994, pp. 45-58.
personal data
SURNAME Tašmetu-Šarrat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Assyria
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 7th century BC Chr.