Ila-kabkabu
The Amorite name Ila-kabkabu appears twice in the Assyrian King List:[1]
- Ila-kabkabu (Akkadian: ððð ð, romanized: ILA-KAB-ka-bi) appears within the Assyrian King List[1] among the âkings whose fathers are knownâ (alongside both: Ila-kabkabu's father and predecessor, Yazkur-el; Ila-kabkabu's son and successor, Aminu),[1]
- Ila-kabkabu of Terqa is also mentioned as the father of one other king named within the Assyrian King List: Å amÅ¡i-Adad I.[1] Å amÅ¡i-Adad I had not inherited the Assyrian throne from his father, but had instead been a conqueror. Ila-kabkabu had been an Amorite king not of AÅ¡Å¡ur (within Assyria), instead; Ila-kabkabu had been king of Terqa (within Syria) during the same time as that of the King Iagitlim of Mari (also within Syria.) According to the Mari Eponyms Chronicle, Ila-kabkabu had seized Shuprum (possibly c. 1790 BC), then Å amÅ¡i-Adad I had, âentered his father's house,â (e.g.. Å amÅ¡i-Adad I had succeeded Ila-kabkabu as the king of Terqa, within the following year.)[1]:163 Å amÅ¡i-Adad I had subsequently conquered a wide territory and had emerged as the king of Assyria, where he had founded an Amorite dynasty.
Arising from the two appearances of the name "Ila-kabkabu" within two different places of the Assyrian King List, the âkings whose fathers are knownâ section has often, although not universally[2] been considered a list of Å amÅ¡i-Adad I's ancestors.[3] In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the Assyrian King List had been written among other things as an, âattempt to justify that Å amÅ¡i-Adad I was a legitimate ruler of the city-state AÅ¡Å¡ur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native Assyrian genealogy.â[3] According to this interpretation, both instances of the name would refer to the same man, Å amÅ¡i-Adad I's father, whose line would have been interpolated into the list.
See also
- Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
- Early Period of Assyria
- List of Assyrian kings
- Assyrian continuity
- Assyrian people
- Assyria
References
- ^ a b c d e Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2004). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 137. ISBN 1589830903.
- ^ For example, Hildegard Levy, writing in the Cambridge Ancient History, rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as the ancestors of Sulili, the kings mentioned immediately afterwards. (See Hildegard Levy, "Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.", Cambridge Ancient History. Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East, 729-770, p. 745-746.)
- ^ a b Meissner, Bruno (1990). Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Vol. 6. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 101â102. ISBN 3110100517.
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