Ašarēd-apil-Ekur, inscribed ^m''a-šá-rid-''A-É.KURKhorsabad Kinglist: iii 41. or ^mSAG.KAL-DUMU.UŠ-É.KURSDAS Kinglist iii 27. and variants,Nassouhi Kinglist iv 8: sup>mSG-A-É.KUR. meaning “the heir of the

Ekur Ekur ( ), also known as Duranki, is a Sumerian term meaning "mountain house". It is the assembly of the gods in the Garden of the gods, parallel in Greek mythology to Mount Olympus and was the most revered and sacred building of ancient Sumer. ...

is foremost,” was the son and successor of Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I as king of

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...

, reigning for just two years, 1076/5–1074 BC, during the turmoil that engulfed the end of that lengthy reign, and he was the 88th king to appear on the Assyrian King List. His reign marked the elevation of the office of ''ummânu'', “royal scribe,” and he was the first to have this recorded next to the king’s name on the ''Synchronistic King List'',Synchronistic King List, KAV 216 (ass. 14616c), ii 18. possibly identifying the contemporary redactor of this list.

Biography

According to an early reading of the ''Synchronistic King List'', he was a contemporary of the

Babylonia Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...

n king Itti-Marduk-balāṭu, c. 1140–1132 BC, where this monarch had perhaps been relocated to follow Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, c. 1099-1082 BC. This part of the

cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sha ...

text is now lost or disproven. Current theories of chronological succession suggest Marduk-šāpik-zēri, c. 1082–1069 BC, may have been his Babylonian counterpart, with Rowton suggesting synchronizing the two-year reign of Ašarēd-apil-Ekur with this king's 5th and 6th years. There are no royal inscriptions known from his reign and he appears only in later king lists and in an eponym list.KAV 21 iii 13, as .. A-É.KUR. He was succeeded by his brother Aššur-bel-kala, then his nephew

Eriba-Adad II Erība-Adad II, inscribed mSU-dIM, “Adad has replaced,” was the king of Assyria 1056/55–1054 BC, the 94th to appear on the ''Assyrian Kinglist''.''SDAS Kinglist'', iii 31.''Nassouhi Kinglist'', iv 12. He was the son of Aššur-bēl-kala whom ...

, then his other brother Šamši-Adad IV.

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