Ashur-nirari II

Aššur-nērārī II, inscribed ^maš-šur-ERIM.GABA (=DÁḪ), "(the god) Aššur is my help,"^[1] was the king of Assyria, the 68th to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist, ca. 1424–1418 BC or 1414–1408 BC depending on a later uncertainty in the chronology, at the tail end of the Old Assyrian period. The small city state of Aššur was a vassal state of the Mitanni empire at this time and still recovering from their sacking of the city under Šauštatar.

Biography

He was the son of IIlil-nāṣir II, who had preceded him on the Assyrian throne. According to the Khorsabad Kinglist^{[i 1]} he reigned for seven years, the corresponding columns on the Nassouhi and SDAS Kinglists are damaged at this point.^[2] A legal text^{[i 2]} from Aššur is dated to the “Eponym of Ber-nādin-aḫḫe, son of Aššur-nērārī, supreme judge” and another^{[i 3]} gives the witness “Šamaš-kidinnu, son of Ibaši-ilu, son of Ber-nādin-aḫḫe, supreme judge.” The title and genealogy suggest Ber-nādin-aḫḫe may have been an otherwise unattested successor to Aššur-nērārī.^[3]

He was succeeded by his son, Aššur-bēl-nišešu.

Inscriptions

1. ↑ Khorsabad Kinglist, tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), iii 3.
2. ↑ KAJ 174.
3. ↑ KAJ 8.

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