Puzur-Ashur I
Puzur-Ashur I | |
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Išši’ak Aššur | |
Reign | c. 2025 BC – unknown |
Predecessor | Akiya (?) |
Successor | Shalim-ahum |
Born | 21st century BCE Assyria (Modern-day Iraq) |
Died | 1970 BCE Assyria (Modern-day Iraq) |
Burial | Assur |
Occupation | sovereign |
Puzur-Ashur I (Akkadian: 𒁍𒀫𒀸𒋩, romanized: Pu-AMAR-Aš-ŠUR) was an Assyrian king in the 21st and 20th centuries BC. He is generally regarded as the founder of Assyria as an independent city-state, c. 2025 BC.[1]
He is in the Assyrian King List and is referenced in the inscriptions of later kings (his son and successor Shalim-ahum and the later Ashur-rim-nisheshu and Shalmaneser III.)[2]: 6, 8, 12, 15 These later kings mentioned him among the kings who had renewed the city walls of Assur begun by Kikkia.[3]
Puzur-Ashur I may have started a native Assyrian dynasty that endured for eight generations until Erishum II was overthrown by the Amorite Shamshi-Adad I.[citation needed] Hildegard Lewy, writing in the Cambridge Ancient History, rejects this interpretation and sees Puzur-Aššur I as part of a longer dynasty started by one of his predecessors, Sulili.[3] Inscriptions link Puzur-Aššur I to his immediate successors,[2]: 7–8 [4] who, according to the Assyrian King List, are related to the following kings down to Erišum II.[2]: 14
Puzur-Ashur I's successors bore the title Išši’ak Aššur, vice regent of Assur, as well as ensí.[5]
See also
- Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
- Early Period of Assyria
- List of Assyrian kings
- Assyrian continuity
- Assyria
References
- ^ Aubet, Maria Eugenia (2013). Commerce and Colonization in the Ancient Near East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0521514170.
- ^ a b c Albert Kirk Grayson (1972). Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Volume 1. Otto Harrassowitz.
- ^ a b Hildegard Lewy, "Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.", Cambridge Ancient History. Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East, 729-770, p. 746-747.
- ^ Albert Kirk Grayson (2002). Assyrian Rulers. Volume 1: 1114 – 859 BC. p. 14.
- ^ Barbara Cifola (1995). Analysis of variants in the Assyrian royal titulary from the origins to Tiglath-Pileser III. Istituto universitario orientale. p. 8.
Preceded by Akiya (?) | Išši’ak Aššur 2025–? BC | Succeeded by |
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(c. 2025–1364 BC)
- Puzur-Ashur I
- Shalim-ahum
- Ilu-shuma
- Erishum I
- Ikunum
- Sargon I
- Puzur-Ashur II
- Naram-Sin
- Erishum II
- Shamshi-Adad I
- Ishme-Dagan I
- Mut-Ashkur (?)
- Rimush (?)
- Asinum (?)
- Puzur-Sin
- Ashur-dugul
- Ashur-apla-idi (?)
- Nasir-Sin (?)
- Sin-namir (?)
- Ipqi-Ishtar (?)
- Adad-salulu (?)
- Adasi (?)
- Bel-bani
- Libaya
- Sharma-Adad I
- Iptar-Sin
- Bazaya
- Lullaya
- Shu-Ninua
- Sharma-Adad II
- Erishum III
- Shamshi-Adad II
- Ishme-Dagan II
- Shamshi-Adad III
- Ashur-nirari I
- Puzur-Ashur III
- Enlil-nasir I
- Nur-ili
- Ashur-shaduni
- Ashur-rabi I
- Ashur-nadin-ahhe I
- Enlil-Nasir II
- Ashur-nirari II
- Ashur-bel-nisheshu
- Ashur-rim-nisheshu
- Ashur-nadin-ahhe II
- Eriba-Adad I
(c. 1363–912 BC)
- Ashur-uballit I
- Enlil-nirari
- Arik-den-ili
- Adad-nirari I
- Shalmaneser I
- Tukulti-Ninurta I
- Ashur-nadin-apli
- Ashur-nirari III
- Enlil-kudurri-usur
- Ninurta-apal-Ekur
- Ashur-dan I
- Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur
- Mutakkil-Nusku
- Ashur-resh-ishi I
- Tiglath-Pileser I
- Asharid-apal-Ekur
- Ashur-bel-kala
- Eriba-Adad II
- Shamshi-Adad IV
- Ashurnasirpal I
- Shalmaneser II
- Ashur-nirari IV
- Ashur-rabi II
- Ashur-resh-ishi II
- Tiglath-Pileser II
- Ashur-dan II
(911–609 BC)
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