Adad-nirari III.

Adad - nirari III. was king of the Assyrian Empire in the years 810-781 BC ( alternative dating: 811-783 BC).

Swell

From his reign only a few inscriptions are known. They are usually short and do not give government year. Schrader refers to it as an overview or ceremonial inscriptions

• Calah plate, discovered in 1854 by William Kennett Loftus and preserved as cast. It consists of a prologue and the historical part. She tells of the conquest of Damascus and the Chaldeans of the sea state (802 BC or 795/794 BC).
• Saba'a stele, partly illegible, ostensibly from the fifth year of reign (806 BC by the Assyrian King List from Khorsabad ). However, after Tadmor they reported the events of the years 805-796 BC. Consists of a prologue, the historical report, the ina ûmēšūma section and the usual curse. Tadmor 'll put 'em on 796 BC.
• Tell al - Rimah stele, erected after 796 BC, by Nergal Eres.
• Built fragment of a stele from Tell Sheikh Hamad on Khabur, BM 131 124, Nergal Eres ( dIGI.DU ).

Life

Adad - nirari was the son and successor of King Shamshi -Adad V, but was still a minor at his death, so that his mother Schammuramat took over the regency. This was probably the historical model of Semiramis. Already Shamshi -Adad V. had had to deal with ambitious officers and local rulers, and this reign meant a further weakening of royal power. These back strengthening and foreign policy on the successes of his grandfather, Shalmaneser III to socialize. , Was the aim of Adad - niraris, which he pursued vigorously.

The sources report accordingly by numerous campaigns during his nearly 30 - year rule. Most of his campaigns went west, the first after the Eponymenchronik, 805 BC After the Tell al - Rimah stele of Adad - nirari went against the Hittites, and the Amorites, and subdued them and made them tributary " in the same year ". He moved to the west and reached the Mediterranean ( " the great sea where the sun sets "). In Aradus, "in the middle of the sea ," he built a picture message. In Lebanon, he hit a wood, 100 full-blown cedars, which he needed for palaces and temples. The most significant campaign against the likely Ben- Hadad III. , King of Aram, have been, the Adad - nirari had to lay siege to 796 BC. Thus the kingdom of Israel was under Joash ( of the Assyrians paid tribute ) and Jeroboam II given the opportunity to recover, because the pressure through the realm Damascus fell away on their northern border. Damascus, subject 796 BC, paid 2000 talents of silver, copper talents in 1000, 2000 talents of iron, polychromatic and monochromatic linen garments Tribute (after Rimah stele, the numbers fluctuate ). Furthermore, Adad - nirari received the tribute of Joash of Samaria, of Tyre, Sidon and of " all the kings of the country Nairi ".

801 BC and 791 BC he moved against Hubuškia, 798 BC against Lusia. Tadmor assumes that he received the tribute of Na'iri as part of these campaigns.

Successor

The death of Adad in Assyria niraris followed by a period of weakening of royal power, again won local authorities and the commander of influence in the. Only Tukulti - apil - Ešarra III. managed some forty years later, the restoration of royal power position.