Aššur-uballiṭ II, also spelled Assur-uballit II and Ashuruballit II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-uballiṭ, meaning "Ashur has kept alive"), was the final ruler of Assyria, ruling from his predecessor Sîn-šar-iškun's death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to his own defeat at Harran in 609 BC.
- c. 645 BC
- 612–609 BC
- c. 608–606 BC (aged c. 40)
- Sîn-šar-iškun
In history of Mesopotamia: Decline of the Assyrian empire. …the founder of the empire, Ashur-uballiṭ II (611–609 bce ). Ashur-uballiṭ had to face both the Babylonians and the Medes. They conquered Harran in 610, without, however, destroying the city completely. In 609 the remaining Assyrian troops had to capitulate.
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Aššur-uballiṭ or Ashur-uballit was one of two Assyrian kings: Ashur-uballit I or Aššur-uballiṭ I, reigned between 1365 and 1330 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire Ashur-uballit II or Aššur-uballiṭ II, last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, succeeding Sin-shar-ishkun (623–612 BC)
Aššur-uballiṭ II, also spelled Assur-uballit II and Ashuruballit II , was the final ruler of Assyria, ruling from his predecessor Sîn-šar-iškun's death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to his own defeat at Harran in 609 BC.
In the letters, Ashur-uballit refers to his second predecessor Ashur-nadin-ahhe II as his "father" or "ancestor," rather than his actual father, Eriba-Adad I, which has led some critics of conventional Egyptian chronology, such as David Rohl, to claim that the Ashur-uballit of the Amarna letters was not the same as Ashur-uballit I. This ...
- c. 1363–1328 BC
- Eriba-Adad I
Aššur-uballiṭ II, also spelled Assur-uballit II and Ashuruballit II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-uballiṭ, meaning "Ashur has kept alive"), was the final ruler of Assyria, ruling from his predecessor Sîn-šar-iškun's death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to his own defeat at Harran in 609 BC.
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