Shamshi-Adad III was the King of Assyria from 1563 BC to 1548 BC. He was the son of

Ishme-Dagan II Ishme-Dagan II or Išme-Dagān II, inscribed m''iš-me ''d''da-gan'' and meaning “(the god) Dagan has heard,” was a rather obscure ruler of Assyria, sometime during the first half of the 16th century BC in the midst of a dark age (Edzard's "d ...

. He is known from an inscription where he reports having repaired two of the

ziggurats A ziggurat (; Cuneiform: 𒅆𒂍𒉪, Akkadian: ', D-stem of ' 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew ''zaqar'' (זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. It ha ...

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