Abstract
Following the recent reconstruction of the order of eponyms in the Dūr-Katlimmu archive by Nahm, this study considers the eponyms of the period in which Tukultī-Ninurta I waged war for domination of Babylonia, from his 13th regnal year onward. It is argued that recently published evidence supports the identification of the eponymy of Etel-pī-Aššur as the year in which Kaštiliaš IV of Babylonia was captured, and that the eponymy of Ellil-nādin-apli is to be placed three years later. The campaign to the lands between the Tigris and the Zagros, undertaken by Tukultī-Ninurta I in the eponymy of Ellil-nādin-apli, was probably directed against the power base of Kadašman-Ḫarbe II, including the city of Lubdu which then passed under Assyrian control. Following the dethronement of Kadašman-Ḫarbe II, Tukultī-Ninurta I maintained closer control over Babylonia, which did not prevent the king of Elam from putting an end to the reign of the Assyrian vassal Adad-šuma-iddina in the 22nd regnal year of Tukultī-Ninurta I.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Vorwort der Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber
- Notes on Two Amulets (Tyszkiewicz and de Serres) Inscribed with Sumerian Incantations
- The Eponyms of the Babylonian War of Tukultī-Ninurta I
- Some Reflections on the Use and the Meaning of the Sign lugal in Urartian Inscriptions
- On the Periphery of the Clerical Community of Old Babylonian Ur
- Murder in Anatolia
- A Compendium of Official Correspondence from Seleucid Uruk
- Annäherungen an die Bedeutung und Funktion von šaḫūrū in altmesopotamischen Bauwerken
- Resizing Phrygia: Migration, State and Kingdom