Esarhaddon
Sign in to saveEsarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father.
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- Born
- 0800-01-01
- Died
- 668
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The history of Esarhaddon (son of Sennacherib) king of Assyria, B. C. 681-688
- Le prisme S d'Assaraddon, roi d'Assyrie 681-668
- The Babylonian correspondence of Esarhaddon, and letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-Šarru- Iškun from northern and central Babylonia
- Traktat sukcesyjny Asarhaddona, króla Asyrii, 681-669 p.n.e.
- Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Esarhaddon
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Akkadian
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- Aššur-aḫa-iddinaAššur-etel-ilani-mukinni
- Royalty.image
- File:Detail. Sam'al stele of Esarhaddon, 671 BCE, Pergamon Museum.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Esarhaddon, closeup from his victory stele, now housed in the Pergamon Museum
- Royalty.reign
- 12 regnal years681 BC (accession)680–669 BC (reign)
- Royalty.predecessor
- Sennacherib
- Royalty.successor
- Ashurbanipal(King of Assyria)Šamaš-šuma-ukin(King of Babylon)
- Royalty.father
- Sennacherib
- Royalty.mother
- Naqiʾa
- Royalty.dynasty
- Sargonid dynasty
- Royalty.issue
- Šērūʾa-ēṭiratAshurbanipalŠamaš-šuma-ukin
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 800 BCE
- Died
- 26 October 669 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Babylon
- Place of death
- Harran
- Spouse
- Ešar-ḫamat
- Child
- Serua-eterat
- Father
- Sennacherib
- Mother
- Naqi'a
- Sibling
- Serua-eterat
- Occupation
- sovereign
Article
29 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Appointed Crown-Prince
- Accession
- War of Succession
- Reign
- Paranoia
- Reconstruction of Babylon
- Military campaigns
- Deteriorating health and depression
- Planning the succession
- Conquest of Egypt and substitute kings
- Conspiracy of 671–670 BC
- Death
- Diplomacy
- Diplomacy with the Arabs
- Diplomacy with the Medes
- Family
- Wives
- Children
- Legacy
- Assyria after Esarhaddon's death
- Assessment by historians
- Titles
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Web sources
- External links
Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father.
After Sennacherib's eldest son and heir Aššur-nādin-šumi had been captured and presumably executed in 694, the new heir had originally been the second eldest son, Arda-Mulissu, but in 684, Esarhaddon, a younger son, was appointed instead. Angered by this decision, Arda-Mulissu and another brother, Nabû-šarru-uṣur, murdered their father in 681 and planned to seize the Neo-Assyrian throne. The murder, and Arda-Mulissu's aspirations of becoming king himself, made Esarhaddon's rise to the throne difficult, and he first had to defeat his brothers in a six-week-long civil war.