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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assur-nasirpal_I." title="Assur-nasirpal I. – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Assur-nasirpal I." data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%81%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BB_%CE%91%CE%84" title="Ασουρνασιρπάλ Α΄ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ασουρνασιρπάλ Α΄" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asurnasirpal_I" title="Asurnasirpal I – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Asurnasirpal I" 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color:inherit; font-size: 125%">Ashurnasirpal I</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i><a href="/wiki/King_of_Assyria" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Assyria">King of Assyria</a></i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image photo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Neo-Assyrian_Limestone_White_Obelisk_of_Ashurnasirpal_I,_Nineveh,_1049-1031_BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Neo-Assyrian_Limestone_White_Obelisk_of_Ashurnasirpal_I%2C_Nineveh%2C_1049-1031_BC.jpg/220px-Neo-Assyrian_Limestone_White_Obelisk_of_Ashurnasirpal_I%2C_Nineveh%2C_1049-1031_BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Neo-Assyrian_Limestone_White_Obelisk_of_Ashurnasirpal_I%2C_Nineveh%2C_1049-1031_BC.jpg/330px-Neo-Assyrian_Limestone_White_Obelisk_of_Ashurnasirpal_I%2C_Nineveh%2C_1049-1031_BC.jpg 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BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_IV" title="Shamshi-Adad IV">Shamshi-Adad IV</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shalmaneser_II" title="Shalmaneser II">Shalmaneser II</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shalmaneser_II" title="Shalmaneser II">Shalmaneser II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ashur-rabi_II" title="Ashur-rabi II">Ashur-rabi II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_IV" title="Shamshi-Adad IV">Shamshi-Adad IV</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ashurnasirpal I</b> (Aššur-nāṣir-apli I, inscribed <sup>m</sup><i>aš-šur-</i><small>PAB-A</small>, meaning "the god <a href="/wiki/Ashur_(god)" title="Ashur (god)">Assur</a> is the protector of the heir") was the king of <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>, 1049–1031 BC, and the 92nd to appear on the <i>Assyrian Kinglist</i>. He was the son and successor of <a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_IV" title="Shamshi-Adad IV">Shamshi-Adad IV</a>, and he ruled for 19 years<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during a troubled period of Assyrian history, marked by famine and war with nomads from the deserts to the west. He is best known for his penitential prayer to <a href="/wiki/Ishtar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ishtar">Ištar</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reign">Reign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a royal hymn composed in his honor, he was born "in the mountains that nobody knows", suggesting he may have been born in exile, or perhaps a literary device, as it continues: "I was without understanding and I prayed not of your majesty". It relates that, when Ishtar appointed him to the kingship, he had restored her overthrown cult. Known from a single copy from the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Ashurbanipal" title="Library of Ashurbanipal">library of Ashurbanipal</a>, it includes a plea to the goddess to restore him to health from the sickness that afflicted him, citing his temple-restoration, and devotions, to persuade her. It addresses Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of <a href="/wiki/Arbil" class="mw-redirect" title="Arbil">Arbil</a>, as though they were separate deities.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second, fragmentary literary prayer thanks her for her favor.<sup id="cite_ref-pna_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pna-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Synchronistic Kinglist</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gives his <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylonian</a> counterpart as <a href="/wiki/Kashshu-nadin-ahi" title="Kashshu-nadin-ahi">Kashshu-nadin-ahi</a> (c. 1006–1004 BC), but probably only for stylistic purposes as there seems to have been no recorded contact between the kingdoms during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ashur">Ashur</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ashur"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A single short <a href="/wiki/Mudbrick_stamp" title="Mudbrick stamp">brick-inscription</a> comes from his palace in <a href="/wiki/Assur" title="Assur">Assur</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was located between the south-west front of the <a href="/wiki/Ziggurat" title="Ziggurat">ziggurat</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Anu" title="Anu">Anu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Adad" class="mw-redirect" title="Adad">Adad</a> temple. The "White Obelisk"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is sometimes attributed to him by historians, but more usually to his later namesake, <a href="/wiki/Ashurnasirpal_II" title="Ashurnasirpal II">Ashurnasirpal II</a>, because its internal content (hunting, military campaigns, etc.) better matches what is known about his reign.<sup id="cite_ref-cah_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cah-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Succession">Succession</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was succeeded by his son, <a href="/wiki/Shalmaneser_II" title="Shalmaneser II">Shalmaneser II</a>, who mentions him in one of his own inscriptions<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later by another son, the long-reigning <a href="/wiki/Ashur-rabi_II" title="Ashur-rabi II">Aššur-rabi II</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White_Obelisk" title="White Obelisk">White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inscriptions">Inscriptions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Inscriptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Khorsabad Kinglist</i>, tablet IM 60017 (excavation nos.: DS 828, DS 32-54), iv 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Synchronistic Kinglist</i>, Ass 14616c (KAV 216), iii 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">RIMA 2 A.0.92.1:1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>White Obelisk</i>, BM 118807.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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Cambridge University Press. pp. 469–470.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=XXXI%3A+Assyria+%26+Babylonia+1200%E2%80%931000+BC&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Ancient+History%2C+Volume+II%2C+Part+2%2C+History+of+the+Middle+East+and+the+Aegean+Region%2C+1380%E2%80%931000+BC&rft.pages=469-470&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1975&rft.au=D.+J.+Wiseman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAshurnasirpal+I" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashurnasirpal_I&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlbert_Kirk_Grayson1991" class="citation book cs1">Albert Kirk Grayson (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/assyrian-rulers-of-the-early-first-millennium-bc-i-1114-859-bc"><i>Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114–859 BC)</i></a>. University of Toronto Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Assyrian+Rulers+of+the+Early+First+Millennium+BC+I+%281114%E2%80%93859+BC%29&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.au=Albert+Kirk+Grayson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fassyrian-rulers-of-the-early-first-millennium-bc-i-1114-859-bc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAshurnasirpal+I" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_IV" title="Shamshi-Adad IV">Shamshi-Adad IV</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/King_of_Assyria" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Assyria">King of Assyria</a> </b><br />1050–1031 BC </td> <td 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