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Tukulti-Ninurta I (meaning: "my trust is in [the warrior god] Ninurta"; reigned c. 1243–1207 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire. He is known as the first king to use the title " King of Kings ".
- Reign & Early Campaigns
- Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta
- The Tukulti-Ninurta Epic
- Death & Legacy
The Kingdom of Mitanni had been conquered by the Hittites under their king Suppiluliuma I (1344-1322 BCE) prior to the rise of the Assyrians. Adad Nirari I and Shalmaneser I, as noted, had secured the region under Assyrian rule by the time Tukulti-Ninurta I took the throne. The Hittites, under their king Tudhaliya IV, were no longer considered the ...
The city of Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Harbor of Tukulti-Ninurta) was the king's personal project and has long been held to have been initiated after the sack of Babylon. The historian Marc Van De Mieroop writes, “The greatest project was the construction of a new capital city by Tikulti-Ninurta, named Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, opposite Ashur on the Tigris Ri...
The historian Stephen Bertman writes, “In literature, Tukulti-Ninurta's victory over Kashtiliash was celebrated in an epic, the so-called Tikulti-Ninurta Epic, the only Assyrian one we possess” (108). In this poem, the king claims that he had no choice but to sack Babylon because the Kassite king had broken the laws ordained by the gods. Commenting...
The Babylonian Chronicles report that, “As for Tukulti-Ninurta, who had brought evil upon Babylon, his son and the nobles of Assyria revolted and they cast him from his throne and imprisoned him in his own palace complex and then killed him with a sword.” His death plunged the country into a chaos of civil war from which his son Ashur-Nadin-Apli, g...
- Joshua J. Mark
Tukulti-Ninurta I, (reigned c. 1243–c. 1207 bc), king of Assyria who asserted Assyrian supremacy over King Kashtiliashu IV, ruler of Kassite-controlled Babylonia to the southeast, and subjugated the mountainous region to the northeast and, for a time, Babylonia.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Following on the campaigns of his predecessor Adad-Nirari I to the west, Tukulti-Ninurta I undertook ambitious missions aimed at carving away land controlled by the Hittites and then from the staunch enemy to the south, Babylon. He is one of the better documented kings of the Middle Assyrian period.
| |. Translation from the Akkadian. Yigal Bloch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Royal name, titulary, genealogy, and legitimacy for rule and supremacy. I. 1) Tukulti-Ninurta, king of the universe, 2) strong king, king of Assyria, chosen. 3) of Ashur, vice-regent of Ashur, attentive shepherd, 4) favorite of the gods Anu and Enlil, 6) whose name
Tukulti-Ninurta I. Circa 1243 - circa 1207 b.c.e. King of assyria. Sources. The Middle Assyrian Kingdom. In the century after Ashuruballit I (circa 1363 - circa 1328 b.c.e.) established the Middle Assyrian kingdom as a major international power on a par with the Egyptians, Hittites, Mittanians, and Babylonians, the Assyrians’ need for ...
Tukulti-Ninurta I, the Assyrian leader, describes his military campaigns against the Babylonians. The poetic narrative embellishes the might and power of Tukulti-Ninurta I and his army, resulting in an Assyrian victory. A statue of the chief Babylonian deity, Marduk, was stolen and taken to the Assyrian capital.
