Shamshi-ilu

Samsi - ilu (also Shamshi - ilu, ilu - Schainschi, Šainši - ilu ) about 800 to 750 BC was an Assyrian general and the governor of the Assyrian province of Bit Adini. He managed the western parts of Aram Nahrin ( northern Syria ).

The Torlöwen of the Northeast gate of redemption Barsip bear the name of Samsi - ilu, with the titles tûrtan (second after the king ) and nagiru rabu (top Herold ), administrator of the temple ( Satam erratic ) and Chief of the Army ( rab ummāni rapši ). He was also governor of Hatti, Guti and the entire country of Narmar. He also boasts of submission of Urartu. The name of the king appeared nowhere in the inscription, which is extremely unusual and indicates a period of weakness of the central government. The Maras stele mentioned Samsi - ilu.

Samsi - ilu IV was in the years 780 BC under Šulmanu - ašared, 770 BC under Ashur -dan III. and 752 BC, under Ashur nirari V. Eponymenbeamter, so an excellent position had for at least for 29 years. Tasyürek describes him as " almost a king in the West."

Tukulti - apil - Ešarra III. , The BC came to rule 746, seems the power of the governor to have cropped and scaled the provinces. In his time, in the years before 743 BC, presumably including the management of Bit Adini and Harran was separated. The fate of Samsi - ilu is unknown, it is after the accession of Tukulti - apil - Ešarra III. no longer mentioned. Samsi - ilus name was expunged from an inscription in Til Barsip, probably because of its in 746 BC made ​​participation in the Kalhu uprising.

According to a theory Garellis Samsi - ilu is identical with bar Ga'yah, the Aramaic king of kita / i / uka ( Til Barsip ), who built three steles, the contracts contain Arpad, perhaps as deputy to the Assyrian king.