Shamshi-Adad II or Šamši-Adad II, inscribed m(d)Šam-ši-dIM, was an Old Assyrian king who ruled in the mid-second millennium BC, c. 1585–1580 BC. His reign...

uncle Šamši-Adad IV. The Khorsabad kinglist mistakenly gives him as a son of Ilu-kabkabi, i.e. the father of the 18th century BC king Šamši-Adad I. Despite...

Shamshi-Adad (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across...

Shamshi-Adad V (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad) was the King of Assyria from 824 to 811 BC. He was named after the god Adad, who is also known as Hadad. Shamshi-Adad was...

earlier by Šamši-Adad’s brother, Ashur-bel-kala. The extent to which he was instrumental in the succession is uncertain but it seems that Šamši-Adad may have...

Erishum II are approximate; preserved eponyms suggest that they together ruled for 64 years, but the distribution of years is not known. Shamshi-Adad I's...

I's family to reign. He was contemporary with his father's former ally, Šamši-Adad V of Assyria, who may have been his brother-in-law, who was possibly married...

"Išmê-Dagān II". Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Volume 5. Walter de Gruyter. p. 196. Heather D. Baker (2008). "Šamši-Adad III"...

father of one other king named within the Assyrian King List: Šamši-Adad I. Šamši-Adad I had not inherited the Assyrian throne from his father, but had...

Aššur-danin-apli. — Šamši-Adad V, Annals The Synchronistic History remains curiously silent on these events, but a treaty between Šamši-Adad and Marduk-zâkir-šumi...

himself “regent of Enlil”, the first Assyrian monarch to do so since Šamši-Adad I. His uninscribed royal seal shows a heraldic group which includes two...

Yasmah-Adad (Yasmah-Addu, Yasmakh-Adad, Ismah-Adad, Iasmakh-Adad) was the younger son of the Amorite king of Upper Mesopotamia, Shamshi-Adad I. He was...

Shamshi-ilu (Šamši-ilu) was an influential court dignitary and commander in chief (turtanu) of the Assyrian army who rose in high prominence. He was active...

reign was brought to its end by the sixth campaign of the Assyrian king, Šamši-Adad V, as described in his Annals: "In Ni ... I besieged [him]. By means of...

dynasty founded by Shamshi-Adad I. He seized power in the aftermath of the overthrow of the dynasty first established by Šamši-Adad I, when native warlords...

Aššur-šumu-lešir 1269: Aššur-alik-pana 1268: Adad-Šamši son of Adad-šumu-lešir 1267: Kidin-Sin son of Adad-teya 1266: Šerriya (ordering from here onwards...

92nd to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist. He was the son and successor of Šamši-Adad IV, and he ruled for 19 years during a troubled period of Assyrian history...

of Mari, is the time of Shamshi-Adad I (c. 1808–1776 BC) and his sons Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad. Shamshi-Adad (Samsi-Addu in his own Amorite language)...

king of Assyria, son of Aššur-nāṣir-apli (I), king of Assyria, son of Šamši-adad (IV), who was also king of Assyria". A temple endowment lists quantities...

ancestors"—has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Šamši-Adad I (fl. c. 1808 BCE – c. 1776 BCE) who had conquered the city-state of...

by his brother Aššur-bel-kala, then his nephew Eriba-Adad II, then his other brother Šamši-Adad IV. Khorsabad Kinglist: iii 41. SDAS Kinglist iii 27....

connived to replace Aššur-bêl-kala’s son and successor, Eriba-Adad II, with his uncle, Šamši-Adad IV, who had been in exile in Babylonia. Broken Obelisk excavation...

2023. Parpola 2015, p. 69–91. Eidem, Jasper, (2014). "The Kingdom of Šamšī-Adad and its Legacies", in Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch and Jesper...

ancestors”—and has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Šamši-Adad I (fl. c. 1809 BCE) who had conquered the city-state of Aššur. The AKL...

mentions his demolition of the dilapidated temple of An and Adad, originally built by Išme-Dāgan II 641 years earlier. It was not to be reconstructed until...

Middle Chronology dating system). The central figure of this period was Šamšī-Adad I who conquered Aššur in the year REL 165, and reigned Assyria until his...

was briefly succeeded by his son, Erība-Adad II, whose short reign was followed by that of his brother Šamši-Adad IV. Assyrian Kinglist, iii 29-30, 31,...

Puzur-Sin, who boasted of overthrowing the son of Asīnûm, descendant of Šamši-Adad, whose name has not been preserved. This may have been Rīmuš, or if Asīnû...

ancestors”—and has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Šamši-Adad I (fl. c. 1809 BCE) who had conquered the city-state of Aššur. This interpretation...

ancestors”—and has often been interpreted as the list of ancestors of the Amorite Šamši-Adad I (fl. c. 1809 BCE) who had conquered the city-state of Aššur. The AKL...