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Tukulti-Ninurta I retained Assyrian control of Urartu, and later defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylonia, and captured the rival city of Babylon to ensure full Assyrian supremacy over Mesopotamia. He set himself up as king of Babylon, and took on the ancient title "King of Sumer and Akkad" first used by Ur-Nammu .
- c. 1243–1207 BC
- Shalmaneser I
- 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. A promoter of cultic ritual, Tukulti-Ninurta erected a noted ziggurat temple to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 imported raw materials grew dramatically.
Tukulti-Ninurta I also undertook the construction of a new capital city a short distance from Assur, naming in Kar Tukulti-Ninurta ("Port Tukulti-Ninurta"). There he spent much of the last years of his life, facing growing opposition to his expensive military policies and ultimately meeting his death in palace intrigue (Singer pg. 107).
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Jun 7, 2015 · Curator: Laura A. Peri. This is the only complete version of the earliest and longest inscription of Tukulti-Ninurta I (ca. 1241 – 1206 BCE), a fascinating Assyrian monarch whose figure and name, “my trust is in (the god) Ninurta”, may have been the inspiration for the biblical Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12). The stele was probably placed in a ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Ninurta began his divine career as a god of irrigation and agriculture. In fact, "The Instruction of Ninurta" is the title of an ancient Sumerian "farmer's almanac". But with the rise of imperialism he was transformed into a young and vigorous god of war. (124) Ninurta was the son of Enlil and Ninhursag, but in some stories, Enlil and Ninlil.
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