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Father. Ila-kabkabu. Shamshi-Adad ( Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu ), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.
Forced to flee to Babylonia, Shamshi-Adad V (823–811) finally managed to regain the kingship with the help of Marduk-zakir-shumi I under humiliating conditions. As king he campaigned with varying success in southern Armenia and Azerbaijan, later turning against Babylonia.…
Shamshi-Adad I conquered Assur and emerged as the first Amorite king of Assyria (c. 1808 BC.) [3] Shamshi-Adad I attempted to legitimize his position on the Assyrian throne by claiming descent from Ushpia (an early native Assyrian king who fl. c. 2050 BC — c. 2030 BC.) Although regarded as an Amorite by later Assyrian tradition, earlier ...
1813– 1791 BC. SCARCELY thirty years ago the figure of Hammurabi, the unifier of Babylonia, still stood out in striking isolation. In fact, at the time he ascended the throne another centralized empire already occupied the whole of northern Mesopotamia: it was the personal creation of Shamshi-Adad I, to whom recent discoveries have made it ...
Shamshi was an Amorite, who lived around 1809-1766 BC where he can be found on the Bible Timeline Poster. His name is translated to be ‘my sun is the god Adad’. He was a king who ruled over the ancient Near East of Assyria and Northern areas around Mesopotamia.
From about 1813 to about 1781 Assyria was ruled by Shamshi-Adad I, a contemporary of Hammurabi and a personality in no way inferior to him. Shamshi-Adad’s father—an Amorite, to judge by the name—had ruled near Mari. The son, not being of Assyrian origin, ascended the throne of Assyria as a foreigner and on a detour, as it were, after ...
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Shamshi-Adad I. Also known as Shamshi-Adad I primary name: Shamshi-Adad I Details individual; ruler; Mesopotamian; Male. Other dates 1813BC-1781BC (ruled) Biography ...
