Ashur-nadin-ahhe II ''(Aššur-nādin-ahhē II)'' was 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 ...
from 1400 to 1391 BC. Preceded by
Ashur-rim-nisheshu
Aššur-rā’im-nišēšu, inscribed md''aš-šur-''ÁG-UN.MEŠ''-šu'', meaning “(the god) Aššur loves his people,” was ruler of Assyria, or ''išši’ak Aššur'', “vice-regent of Aššur,” written in Sumerian: PA.TE.SI (=ÉNSI), c. ...
, he was succeeded by his brother,
Eriba-Adad I.
Ashur-nadin-ahhe is an Assyrian personal name meaning “the god
Ashur has given a brother” in the
Akkadian language
Akkadian (, Akkadian: )John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages''. Ed. Roger D. Woodard (2004, Cambridge) Pages 218-280 is an extinct East Semitic language t ...
. Two Assyrian kings ruling in the 15th or early 14th century BC were called Ashur-nadin-ahhe. Hardly anything is known about these kings, but one of them is mentioned in one of the
Amarna letters
The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna") are an archive, written on clay tablets, primarily consisting of diplomatic correspondence between ...
. In the letter from king Ashur-uballit of Assyria to the Pharaoh of Egypt, numbered EA 16, Ashur-nadin-ahhe is referred to as his ancestor who wrote to Egypt and received gold in return. This would imply an earlier diplomatic marriage and alliance between Assyria and Egypt during his reign. The name Ashur-nadin-ahhe mentioned in EA 16 has recently been contested as a faulty writing of
Ashur-nadin-apli
Aššūr-nādin-apli, inscribed m''aš-šur-''SUM-DUMU.UŠ, was king of Assyria (1206 BC – 1203 BC or 1196 BC – 1194 BC short chronology). The alternate dating is due to uncertainty over the length of reign of a later monarch, Ninurta-apal-Ekur ...
, another Assyrian king.
See also
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Kings 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 ...
References
External links
Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (king of Assyria) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
14th-century BC Assyrian kings
15th-century BC births
1391 BC deaths
Year of birth unknown
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