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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">King of Assyria</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn" style="background-color: #cbe; color:inherit; font-size: 125%">Arik-den-ili</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><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">King of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Assyrian_Empire" title="Middle Assyrian Empire">Middle Assyrian Empire</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">12 regnal years<br />1317–1306 BC<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Enlil-nirari" title="Enlil-nirari">Enlil-nirari</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Adad-nirari_I" title="Adad-nirari I">Adad-nirari I</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/Adad-nirari_I" title="Adad-nirari I">Adad-nirari I</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Enlil-nirari" title="Enlil-nirari">Enlil-nirari</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Arik-den-ili</b>, inscribed <sup>m</sup>GÍD-DI-DINGIR, “long-lasting is the judgment of god,”<sup id="cite_ref-pna_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pna-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was <a href="/wiki/King_of_Assyria" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Assyria">King of Assyria</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1317–1306 BC, ruling the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Assyrian_Empire" title="Middle Assyrian Empire">Middle Assyrian Empire</a>. He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Enlil-nirari" title="Enlil-nirari">Enlil-nirari</a>, his father, and was to rule for twelve years and inaugurate the tradition of annual military campaigns against Assyria's neighbors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arik-den-ili&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The sources are slim for his reign, less than ten inscriptions, a fragmentary chronicle and references to his affairs in those of his son <a href="/wiki/Adad-nirari_I" title="Adad-nirari I">Adad-nirari I</a>’s accounts. He seems to have been the first of the Assyrian kings to have institutionalized the conduct of annual military campaigns,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some of which appear to be little more than livestock-rustling expeditions, as the chronicle mentions “a hundred head of sheep and goats and a hundred head of their cattle [...] he brought to Aššur.”<sup id="cite_ref-glassner_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glassner-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Arik-den-ili's first victories were against his eastern neighbours (the Pre-Iranic inhabitants of what was to become <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>), <a href="/wiki/Turukku" class="mw-redirect" title="Turukku">Turukku</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nigimhi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nigimhi (page does not exist)">Nigimhi</a>, and all the chiefs of the (<a href="/wiki/Zagros_Mountains" title="Zagros Mountains">Zagros</a>) mountains and highlands in the broad tracts of the <a href="/wiki/Gutians" class="mw-redirect" title="Gutians">Gutians</a> to subdue the nomadic tribes on Assyria's northern and eastern frontiers. The Gutians had been vassals of the <a href="/wiki/Kassites" title="Kassites">Kassites</a> who ruled in <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> and may have acted as their agents.<sup id="cite_ref-edwards_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edwards-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nigimhi's ruler was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Esini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Esini (page does not exist)">Esini</a>. The Assyrians had invaded and carried off their harvest and in retaliation Esini led a force into Assyria which resulted in a massacre of his forces. Arik-den-ili besieged the town of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arnuna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arnuna (page does not exist)">Arnuna</a>, in which Esini was holed up. Destruction of the gate and walls forced Esini's capitulation and so he swore allegiance to his Assyrian overlord.<sup id="cite_ref-grayson_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grayson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chronicle then lists <a href="/w/index.php?title=Habaruha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Habaruha (page does not exist)">Habaruha</a>, Kutila, <a href="/wiki/Tarbisu" title="Tarbisu">Tarbiṣu</a>, Kudina, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Remaku&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Remaku (page does not exist)">Remaku</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nagabbilhi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nagabbilhi (page does not exist)">Nagabbilhi</a>. Of these only Tarbiṣu is known, a town a short distance from Nineveh. The residents of Halahhu seem to have borne the brunt of his wrath as he claimed to have killed 254,000 of them,<sup id="cite_ref-glassner_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glassner-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a fairly preposterous boast even for the period. He then turned westward into <a href="/wiki/The_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="The Levant">The Levant</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>), where he subjugated the <a href="/wiki/Suteans" title="Suteans">Suteans</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ahlamu" title="Ahlamu">Aḫlamû</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yauru&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yauru (page does not exist)">Yauru</a>, the nomadic <a href="/wiki/Semitic_people" title="Semitic people">West Semitic</a> tribesmen who would become the <a href="/wiki/Arameans" title="Arameans">Arameans</a>, in the region of Katmuḫi in the middle Euphrates.<sup id="cite_ref-grayson_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grayson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>But his activities were not limited to warfare. The temple of <a href="/wiki/Shamash" title="Shamash">Šamaš</a> at <a href="/wiki/Assur" title="Assur">Aššur</a>, as a mud-brick construction, had decayed into a mound of dirt surrounded by ad hoc shrines. “In order that the harvest of my land might prosper,” he had them cleared and rebuilt the temple, laying its foundation during the eponym year of Berutu, a son of the earlier king <a href="/wiki/Eriba-Adad_I" title="Eriba-Adad I">Eriba-Adad I</a>. His own son credited him with the construction of the great <a href="/wiki/Ziggurat" title="Ziggurat">Ziggurat</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ashur_(god)" title="Ashur (god)">Aššur</a> in one of his own building dedications.<sup id="cite_ref-grayson_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grayson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like his father, <a href="/wiki/Enlil-nirari" title="Enlil-nirari">Enlil-nirari</a>, before him he had to battle inconclusively against <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>, in this case against king <a href="/wiki/Nazi-Maruttash" title="Nazi-Maruttash">Nazi-Maruttaš</a>. His son was to recall “my father could not rectify the calamities inflicted by the army of the king of the Kassite land” in a contemporary Assyrian epic.<sup id="cite_ref-edwards_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edwards-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That dispute was finally resolved with his son, Adad-nirari I's victory over the Babylonians at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_K%C4%81r_I%C5%A1tar" title="Battle of Kār Ištar">Battle of Kār Ištar</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arik-den-ili&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <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"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChen2020" class="citation book cs1">Chen, Fei (2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://brill.com/view/book/9789004430921/back-1.xml?body=fullhtml-43184">"Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=N3znDwAAQBAJ"><i>Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur</i></a>. 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title="Shalim-ahum">Shalim-ahum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilu-shuma" title="Ilu-shuma">Ilu-shuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erishum_I" title="Erishum I">Erishum I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikunum" title="Ikunum">Ikunum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sargon_I" title="Sargon I">Sargon I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puzur-Ashur_II" title="Puzur-Ashur II">Puzur-Ashur II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naram-Sin_of_Assyria" title="Naram-Sin of Assyria">Naram-Sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erishum_II" title="Erishum II">Erishum II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_I" title="Shamshi-Adad I">Shamshi-Adad I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishme-Dagan_I" title="Ishme-Dagan I">Ishme-Dagan I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mut-Ashkur" title="Mut-Ashkur">Mut-Ashkur</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rimush_of_Assyria" title="Rimush of Assyria">Rimush</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asinum" title="Asinum">Asinum</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puzur-Sin" title="Puzur-Sin">Puzur-Sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur-dugul" title="Ashur-dugul">Ashur-dugul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur-apla-idi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashur-apla-idi">Ashur-apla-idi</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasir-Sin" class="mw-redirect" title="Nasir-Sin">Nasir-Sin</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sin-namir" class="mw-redirect" title="Sin-namir">Sin-namir</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ipqi-Ishtar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ipqi-Ishtar">Ipqi-Ishtar</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adad-salulu" class="mw-redirect" title="Adad-salulu">Adad-salulu</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adasi_(Assyria)" title="Adasi (Assyria)">Adasi</a> (?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bel-bani" title="Bel-bani">Bel-bani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libaya" title="Libaya">Libaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharma-Adad_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharma-Adad I">Sharma-Adad I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iptar-Sin" title="Iptar-Sin">Iptar-Sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazaya" title="Bazaya">Bazaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lullaya" title="Lullaya">Lullaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shu-Ninua" title="Shu-Ninua">Shu-Ninua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharma-Adad_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharma-Adad II">Sharma-Adad II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erishum_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Erishum III">Erishum III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_II" title="Shamshi-Adad II">Shamshi-Adad II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishme-Dagan_II" title="Ishme-Dagan II">Ishme-Dagan II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamshi-Adad_III" title="Shamshi-Adad III">Shamshi-Adad III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur-nirari_I" title="Ashur-nirari I">Ashur-nirari I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puzur-Ashur_III" title="Puzur-Ashur III">Puzur-Ashur III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enlil-nasir_I" title="Enlil-nasir I">Enlil-nasir I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nur-ili" title="Nur-ili">Nur-ili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur-shaduni" title="Ashur-shaduni">Ashur-shaduni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur-rabi_I" title="Ashur-rabi I">Ashur-rabi 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