Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I

Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I, son of Aššur-rabi I was the sixty-sixth ruler of Assyria, according to the Assyrian King List [/riao/kinglists/assyriankinglist/assyriankinglist/index.html#Mittani] (AKL). Unfortunately, the length of his reign is not known as it is either damaged or missing in the extant copies of the AKL (Nassouhi [/riao/kinglists/assyriankinglist/nassouhilist/index.html], Khorsabad [/riao/kinglists/assyriankinglist/khorsabadlist/index.html], and SDAS [/riao/kinglists/assyriankinglist/sdaslist/index.html]), which records that his brother Enlil-nāṣir II deposed him.

Two fragmentary inscriptions are written in the name of a Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē, but it is uncertain whether these should be ascribed to the first or second Assyrian king of that name; scholars generally assign them to Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē II (Grayson, RIMA 1, p. 105). There is a slight possibility that Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I is referred to in a letter of Assur-uballiṭ I from El Amarna (Rainey 2015:130 letter 16) where an Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē is credited with initiating diplomatic relations with Egypt (Kühne 1973:77-78 n.387). This may have been difficult since Assyria would have been a vassal of Mittani at that time.

Bibliography

Grayson, A.K., 'Königslisten und Chroniken. B. Akkadisch,' Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 6 (1980-83), pp. 100-15.

Grayson, A.K. Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC), (RIMA 1) 1987, Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Kühne, C. Die Chronologie der internationalen Korrespondenz von El- Amarna, (AOAT 17) 1973, Neukirchen-Vluyn, Butzon and Bercker.

Rainey, A.F. The El-Amarna Correspondence: A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna based on Collations of all Extant Tablets, 2015, Leiden and Boston, Brill.

Yehonatan Hershkovitz

Yehonatan Hershkovitz, 'Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I', RIA 1: Inscriptions from the Origins of Assyria to Arik-dīn-ili, The RIA Project, 2023 [http://oracc.org/oldassyrianperiod/mittanianhegemony/ashurnadinahhei/]