Shalmaneser I
{{short description|Assyrian king}}
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| name = Shalmaneser I
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| predecessor = Adad-nirari I
| successor = Tukulti-Ninurta I
| father = Adad-nirari I
| succession = King of the Middle Assyrian Empire
| issue = Tukulti-Ninurta I
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Shalmaneser I (𒁹𒀭𒁲𒈠𒉡𒊕 mdsál-ma-nu-SAG Salmanu-ašared;[http://oracc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/tcma/laws/cbd/qpn-x-people/x00000080.html ORACC Middle Assyrian Laws - Shalmaneser I]The name means: "[the god] Salmanu is preeminent"; Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq (Penguin, 3rd ed., 1992), p. 295. 1273–1244 BC or 1265–1235 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire. He was the son and successor of Adad-nirari I.{{EB1911 |wstitle=Shalmaneser |volume=24 |page=798 |first=Archibald Henry |last=Sayce |inline=1}}
File:Stele of king Shalmaneser I, 1263-1234 BCE. From Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum.jpg
Reign
Year 1: According to his annals, discovered at Assur, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur.
Year 2: In his second year he defeated Shattuara, king of Hanilgalbat (Mitanni), and his Hittite and Ahlamu allies. He incorporated the remains of the Mittanni kingdom as part of one of the Assyrian provinces. Shalmaneser I also claimed to have blinded 14,400 enemy prisoners in one eye. He was one of the first Assyrian kings who was known to deport his defeated enemies to various lands rather than simply slaughtering them all.
He conquered the whole country from Taidu to Irridu, from Mount Kashiar to Eluhat, and from the fortresses of Sudu and Harranu to Carchemish on the Euphrates. He built palaces at Assur and Nineveh, restored the "world-temple" at Assur (Ehursagkurkurra), and founded the city of Kalhu (the biblical Calah/Nimrud). He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-Ninurta I.
Image:KingshalmaneserI.jpgAnnual limmu officials beginning with the year of accession of Šulmanu-ašared. The list is partly derived from FreydankHelmut Freydank, AoF 3 (2005), 45-56. and McIntyre.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090808065904/http://geocities.com/farfarer2001/eponyms/shalmaneser_1/shalmaneser1_summary.html Eponyms of Shalmaneser 1 – Summary] The exact order of the earliest limmus is conjectural but the ordering from Šerriya onwards is essentially fixed.
Notes
Sources
- Dönbaz, Veysel, and Grant, Frame (1983). "[https://www.academia.edu/5736394/The_Building_Activities_of_Shalmaneser_I_in_Northern_Mesopotamia_with_V._Donbaz The building activities of Shalmaneser I in Northern Mesopotamia]". Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 1 (1983): 1–5.
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| title = King of Assyria
| years = 1273–1244 BC
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| after = Tukulti-Ninurta I
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Category:13th-century BC Assyrian kings