Shammuramat

Šammuramat ( Schamuramat ), daughter of Marduk - Zakir - šumi I., was an Assyrian queen, wife of Samsi -Adad V ( 824-810 BC) and mother of Adad - nirari III. ( 810-782 BC). It was after the death of Samsi -Adad V. perhaps regent for her young son. Your exact survival data are unknown. Perhaps the " grief " in the year 788 BC, the Eponymenchronik reference to their death. After a stele in Assyria she was at least 797 BC still alive.

For the question of a regency Šammuramats are mainly two royal steles of importance. The steles from Saba'a was found "west of Sinjar ," and is now in the Istanbul Museum. It is dedicated to Adad and was built by Nergal - eres, the governor of Rasappa. The second stele was found in 1967 in a late - Assyrian shrine at Tell al Rimah ( Zamihi / Zamahu ), apparently still in situ, an absolute exception for Assyrian king stelae. It shows Adad - nirari in border position, a staff in his left hand and with gods symbols next to the head. She is also dedicated to Adad and Nergal donated by Eres. The inscription tells of a campaign of the king to Syria in his first year of reign, during which he received the tribute of Mari ' of Aram and the city Aradus reached, " which is in the middle of the sea ". This campaign is usually carried 806. After Eponymenchronik Adad - nirari moved in this year, however, against Mannai. Since the statue of Saba'a is the same campaign in the fifth year of King, some researchers assume that the count of Rimah stele to the first independent government Adad - year niraris concerns and he reigned previously shared with his mother. Page assumes, however, that Adad - nirari several campaigns per year undertook, of which only one is mentioned on the stele.

Discussed is also the interpretation of the word RABIS on the Saba'a stele. It can be interpreted as "powerful" or " as an independent ruler ," according to Page either. The latter interpretation would speak for a previous co- regency, after the king now RABIS sitting in his fifth year on the throne, but what Page considers unlikely.

Was Šamuramat, together with the newly - Assyrian queen Zakutu / Naqi 'a probably a model for the mythical figure of Semiramis.