Adad-guppi /ˈædəˌɡɒpi/ (Babylonian cuneiform: Adad-gûppîʾ; c. 648-544 BC), also known as Addagoppe, was a devotee of the moon god Sîn in the northern Assyrian...
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List of Assyrian kings (redirect from Adad-salulu)
Originally it was assumed that the list was first written in the time of Shamshi-Adad I c. 1800 BC but it now is considered to date from much later, probably from...
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Adad-apla-iddina, typically inscribed in cuneiform mdIM-DUMU.UŠ-SUM-na, mdIM-A-SUM-na or dIM-ap-lam-i-din-[nam] meaning the storm god “Adad has given...
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penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient...
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Old Assyrian period (section Conquests of Shamshi-Adad)
city was captured by the foreign Amorite conqueror Shamshi Adad I in c. 1808 BC. Shamshi-Adad ruled from the city Shubat-Enlil and established a short-lived...
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son of Adad-nirari or Ashur-nirari. The Assyriologists Fei Chen, Albert Kirk Grayson and Shiego Yamada consider it more likely that he was Adad-nirari's...
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Shammuramat (section Reign of Shamshi-Adad V)
consort of the king Shamshi-Adad V (r. 824–811 BC), Shammuramat reached an unusually prominent position in the reign of her son Adad-nirari III (r. 811–783...
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eight generations until Erishum II was overthrown by the Amorite Shamshi-Adad I.[citation needed] Hildegard Lewy, writing in the Cambridge Ancient History...
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