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Tudiya or Tudia (Akkadian: ๐ ๐ฒ๐ , romanized: แนฌu-di-ia) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the first Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period, though he is not attested in any known contemporary artefacts. [1] He is listed among the “seventeen kings who lived in tents.” [2][3] His existence is unconfirmed ...
The kings are listed in reverse order in the AKL, starting from Aminu and ending with Apiashal (who is also included in the list of kings who lived in tents). Hale, son of Apiashal. Samani, son of Hale. Hayani, son of Samani. Ilu-Mer, son of Hayani. Yakmesi, son of Ilu-Mer. Yakmeni, son of Yakmesi. Yazkur-el, son of Yakmeni.
The earliest king named Tudiya, who was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla, appears to have lived in the mid-23rd century BC, according to the king list. Tudiya concluded a treaty with Ibrium for the use of a trading post in the Levant officially controlled by Ebla. Apart from this reference to trading activity, nothing further has yet been ...
Adamu is succeeded on the Assyrian King List by Yangi and then a further fourteen rulers: Suhlamu, Harharu, Mandaru, Imsu, Harsu, Didanu, Hana, Zuabu, Nuabu, Abazu, Belu, Azarah, Ushpia and Apiashal. Nothing concrete is known about these names, although it has been noted that a much later Babylonian tablet listing the ancestral lineage of ...
The Early Assyrian period[1][2] was the earliest stage of Assyrian history, preceding the Old Assyrian period and covering the history of the city of Assur, and its Akkadian speaking people and culture, prior to the foundation of Assyria as an independent Mesopotamian city-state ether under Ushpia c. 2085 BC or Puzur-Ashur I c. 2025 BC.
Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city sequentially, the historical reality was that there were ...
Sumerian King List at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the ...
A giant lamassu from the royal palace of the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC) at Dur-Sharrukin The history of the Assyrians encompasses nearly five millennia, covering the history of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Assyria, including its territory, culture and people, as well as the later history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC.