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Adad-nirari III, also known as Adad-narari was the king of Assyria between 811 BC and 783 BC. He was the successor and son of the previous king of Assyria named Shamshi-Adad V. It is believed that he was very young when he assumed reign over Assyria due to the fact that for the first five years his mother Shammuramat was very influential ...
Jan 10, 2018 · Both of these dates fall within the reign of Adad-Nirari III (805-782 BCE). Although, other candidates for Jonah’s “king of Nineveh” do exist, Adad-Nirari III seems to be an interesting fit due to his little-known monotheistic revolution. For reasons unknown Adad-Nirari III chose Nabu, the Assyrian god of literacy, scribes and wisdom, as ...
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Upper part of the stele. The Saba'a Stele, also known as the Saba'a Inscription, is a boundary stone inscription of the reign of Adad-nirari III (811 to 783 BC) discovered in 1905 in two pieces in Saba'a, Sanjak of Zor, south of the Sinjar Mountains in modern Syria. It is the primary source for the military campaigns of Adad-nirari III.
Ashur-nirari III. Aššur-nerari III, inscribed maš-šur- ERIM.GABA, “ Aššur is my help,” [2] was king of Assyria (1202–1197 BC or 1193–1187 BC). He was the grandson of Tukulti-Ninurta I and might have succeeded his uncle or more probably his father Ashur-nadin-apli to the throne, who had participated in a conspiracy against Tukulti ...
- Early Rule
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He boasted that he was the "defeater of the heroic armies of the Kassites (their Babylonian neighbors to the south), Qutu (their eastern Gutean neighbors), Lullumu (the Lullubi tribesmen of Ancient Iran immediately east of Assyria) and Shubaru ("northerners in Asia Minor"). Pacifier of all enemies above and below." The defeat of Nazi-Maruttaš' Kass...
This allowed the Assyrians to turn their attention to the conquest of the Mitanni. Under Shattiwaza, Hanigalbat (a remnant of the Mitanni empire) had become a vassal state of the Hittite empire, celebrated with a treaty, as a buffer to the ascendant Assyrians. But treaties were between individual kings during the late bronze age as nation states ha...
The seat of Assyrian governance was possibly Wasashatta's former capital, Taida, because his monumental steles recounted that it "had become dilapidated and (he) removed its debris. (He) restored it,"[i 11] rebuilding the palace replete with a suitably boastful commemorative inscription prepared but never installed as it was found in the ruins of A...
This historical epic is extant in four fragments[i 15]and concerns the conflict between Adad-nārārī and his Babylonian contemporary Nazi-Maruttash, with whom he clashes and ultimately vanquishes in battle. The surviving pieces do not allow for a detailed narrative to be reconstructed. They do, however, suggest a sequence of events, where Adad-nārār...
In 2018, repeated inscriptions were discovered on four brick molds talking about the celebration of building a palace By the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I (1308-1275 BC) in Qasr Shemamok (Kilizu) in Erbil governorate, and this palace was built On an old palace of one of the Mitanni kings (1475 - 1275 BC) who lived in this city, a contemporary of King...
Assyrian origins: discoveries at Ashur on the Tigris: antiquities in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available onlin...
May 23, 2019 · This limestone stele depicts the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, (r. 810-783 BCE), praying before gods and goddesses symbols. The cuneiform inscriptions mention the king's titles and military campaigns. From Tell al-Rimah, in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. On display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.
Other articles where Adad-nirari III is discussed: Jordan: Biblical associations: …were the Assyrians, who under Adadnirari III (811/810–783 bce) overran the eastern part of the country as far as Edom. Revolts against Assyrian rule occurred in the 760s and 750s, but the country was retaken in 734–733 by Tiglath-pileser III (reigned 745–727 bce), who then devastated Israel, sent its ...
