Ashurnasirpal II

Ashur - nasir - apli II (also Aschschur - nasir - apli, Assur- nasirpal ) reigned as King of Assyrian 883-859 BC He was the son of Tukulti -Ninurta II

The Assyrian empire won under him again the extent of the time of Tukulti - apil - Ešarra I. campaigns led Ashur - nasir - apli among others against Babylon and Urartu. In a campaign against the Syrians 300 talents of iron were mentioned as spoils of war that make the economic boom of the Syrians clearly.

The reports of his conquests are written in exaggerated phrases. So the flat mountain range of Gebel Bisri is southwest of the Euphrates described as high mountains, whose peaks do not reach the birds.

The Tribute and the spoils were required, among other things, to finance construction projects in Ashur, Nineveh and Kalhu. Ashur - nasir - apli moved the capital of Assyria after Kalhu. The inauguration of Kalhu was celebrated for ten days. In attendance were approximately 70,000 guests ( Assyrians, foreigners from at least twelve countries, including Sidon, Tyre, Muṣaṣir, Kumme, Gurgum, Gilzanu and Melid ), as described on the banquet stele. The palace also had a beautiful garden. In Imgur - Enlil, he built a temple of God's dream Mamu, whose gates he decorated it with bronze reliefs.

Ashur - nasir - apli led by administrative forms. A tightly stretched messenger network allowed a quick message of uprisings that could be nipped in the bud so. Under Ashur - nasir - apli II deportations were expanded in a big way. His successor was his son - Salmānu ašarēd III .. His wife was Mullissu - mukannišat - Ninua, who was also the mother of the successor.