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Key facts
- Reign
- 1363–1328 BC , 1353-1318 BC
- Predecessor
- Eriba-Adad I
- Successor
- Enlil-nirari
- Issue
- Enlil-nirari Muballitat-Sherua
- Father
- Eriba-Adad I
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Assyrian Empire
- Father
- Eriba-Adad I
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Image
- Assyrian Cuneiform Script - 36562326005.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1400-00-00
- date of death
- 1318-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Egyptian Museum
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ashur-uballit I (Aššur-uballiṭ I), who reigned between c. 1363 and c. 1328 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire. After his father Eriba-Adad I (1390-1364 BC) had broken half a century of intermittent Hurrian- Mitanni influence over Assyria, Ashur-uballit I's defeat of the Mitanni king Shuttarna III marks Assyria's full ascendancy over the Hurri-Mitanni Empire, much of which it annexed, and the beginning of its reemergence as a powerful empire. Later on, due to disorder in Babylonia following the death of the Kassite king Burnaburiash II, Ashur-uballit invaded and established Kurigalzu II on the Babylonian throne, in the first of what would become a series of Assyrian interventions in Babylonian affairs.
Family and personal life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ashur-uballit I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.