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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 · Adad-Nirari III was king of the Assyrian Empire and reigning roughly from 805-782 BCE. The Saba'a Stele of Adad-Nirari III recording some of Adad-Nirari’s campaigns was discovered in 1905 in the Sinjar Mountains of Syria. The Stele dates from around 800 BCE and provides one of the earliest archaeological records of the name Palestine (Pa-la ...
relationship to Sammu-ramat. In Sammu-ramat. …mother of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III (reigned 810–783 bc ). Her stela (memorial stone shaft) has been found at Ashur, while an inscription at Calah (Nimrūd) shows her to have been dominant there after the death of her husband, Shamshi-Adad V (823–811 bc ).
Adad-nirari King of Assyria III (Ca 820 BC - ) Adad-nirari was a son and successor of king Shamshi-Adad V and was apparently quite young at the time of his accession, because for the first five years of his reign his mother Shammuramat acted as regent, which may have given rise to the legend of Semiramis.
The period of Assyrian history from 823 to 745 BC, from the end of Shalmaneser III’s reign to the succession of Tiglath-pileser III, is typically described in introductory hand- books as one of imperial weakness and decline. The longest reign during this period was the 28-year rule of Adad-nirari III (810–783 BC).
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Adad-nirari III. primary name: Adad-nirari III. Details. individual; ruler; Mesopotamian; Male. Other dates. 810BC-783BC (ruled) Biography. King of Assyria, son and successor of Shamshi-Adad V. He collected tribute from the king of Damascus and attacked the Babylonian city of Der.
During Adad-nirari's reign, however, the two recensions of the Eponym List diverge and give a difference of a year in the chronology of Assyria for the period prior to ca. 785. The short recension of the Eponym List which dates Adad-nirari's accession in 811 and his first full regnal year in 810 currently is preferred.5
