Shamshi-Adad V ( akk, Šamši-Adad) was the
King of Assyria
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: ''Išši'ak Aššur'', later ''šar māt Aššur'') was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC. For much of its ear ...
from 824 to 811 BC. He was named after the god
Adad, who is also known as Hadad.
Family
Shamshi-Adad was a son and successor of King
Shalmaneser III, the husband of Queen
Shammuramat (by some identified with the mythical
Semiramis), and the father of
Adad-nirari III, who succeeded him as king.
He was also a grandfather of
Shalmaneser IV.
Reign
The first years of Shamshi-Adad's reign saw a serious struggle for the succession of the aged Shalmaneser.
The revolt was led by Shamshi-Adad's brother
Assur-danin-pal, and had broken out already by 826 BC. The rebellious brother, according to Shamshi-Adad's own inscriptions, succeeded in bringing to his side 27 important cities, including
Nineveh
Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ban ...
. The rebellion lasted until 820 BC, weakening the Assyrian empire and its ruler; this weakness continued to reverberate in the kingdom until the reforms of
Tiglath-Pileser III.
Later in his reign, Shamshi-Adad campaigned against Southern
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...
, and stipulated a treaty with the Babylonian king
Marduk-zakir-shumi I.
In 814 BC, he won the
Battle of Dur-Papsukkal
The Battle of Dur-Papsukkal in 814 BC was fought by the Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad V against the Babylonian king Marduk-balassu-iqbi, some Elamite allies, and few Aramean tribes settled in Babylonia
Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Ak ...
against the Babylonian king
Marduk-balassu-iqbi, and a few
Aramean tribes settled in
Babylonia. The extent of Shamshi-Adad's victory was such that he obtained the submission of the Babylonian king and, after obtaining booty from several Babylonian cities, he returned to Assyria with palace treasures and gods (i.e. the sacred representation of the gods).
[Jean-Jacques Glassner, ''Mesopotamian Chronicles'', Atlanta, 2004, p. 183]
See also
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Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
The Stela of Shamshi-Adad V is a large Assyrian monolith erected during the reign of Shamshi-Adad V. The stela was discovered in the mid nineteenth century at the ancient site of Kalhu (now known as Nimrud) by the British archaeologist Hormuzd Ras ...
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811 BC deaths
9th-century BC Assyrian kings
Year of birth unknown