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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 ".
- 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
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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 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).
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.
- Joshua J. Mark
Limestone memorial stele or tablet of Tukulti-Ninurta I, King of Assyria; inscribed with roughly thirty-three lines of cuneiform text on one side and twenty-three lines of the text on the other side, both recording his titles and genealogy and describing briefly his numerous campaigns; there is also a reference to his building of Kar Tukulti-Ninurta; begining, end and bottom lines of ...
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. 5) Ashur and the great gods.
