Asinum
Sign in to saveAsinum was possibly a king of Assyria during the 18th century BC, and a grandson of Shamshi-Adad I. He was overthrown by Puzur-Sin because he was of Amorite extraction; not included in the standard King List, but attested in Puzur-Sin's inscription.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Asium
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Akkadian
- Royalty.native_lang2
- Amorite
- Royalty.reign
- 1730s BC
- Royalty.successor
- Puzur-Sin (usurper)
- Royalty.father
- Shamshi-Adad I (grandfather)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Assyrian Empire
- Occupation
- sovereign
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Asinum was possibly a king of Assyria during the 18th century BC, and a grandson of Shamshi-Adad I. He was overthrown by Puzur-Sin because he was of Amorite extraction; not included in the standard King List, but attested in Puzur-Sin's inscription.
Asinum was deposed in a revolt that aimed to restore the traditions of Old Assyrian period. In the inscription left by Puzur-Sin, the Amorite kings beginning with Shamsi-Adad were described as "foreign plague not of the flesh of the city of Assur" while the latter was accused of constructing a palace for himself (possibly a reference to the so-called Old Palace built next to the ziggurat) and destroying old Assur shrines. After Asinum's rule, anarchy ensued in Assyria after a series of eight usurpers seized the throne.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asinum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.