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- Title
The Eponyms of the Babylonian War of Tukultī-Ninurta I.
- Authors
Bloch, Yigal
- 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.
- Subjects
BABYLONIA; ILAM (Iran); ASSYRIA; WAR; FEUDALISM; WAGES; POSTWAR reconstruction; ARCHIVES
- Publication
Altorientalische Forschungen (0232-8461), 2023, Vol 50, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0232-8461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/aofo-2023-0003