Ashur-nadin-ahhe II

Ashur-nadin-ahhe II
Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē II
Issi'ak Assur
King of Assur
Reignc. 1400–1391 BC[1]
PredecessorAshur-rim-nisheshu
SuccessorEriba-Adad I
BornAssyria
DiedAssyria
Burial
Assyria
Names
Ashur-nadin-ahhe II

Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē II)[2] was king of Assyria from c. 1400 to 1391 BC. Preceded by Ashur-rim-nisheshu, he was succeeded by his brother, Eriba-Adad I.[3]

Ashur-nadin-ahhe is an Assyrian personal name meaning “the god Ashur has given a brother” in the Akkadian language. Two Assyrian kings ruling in the 15th or early 14th century BC were called Ashur-nadin-ahhe. Hardly anything is known about these kings, but one of them is mentioned in one of the Amarna letters. In the letter from king Ashur-uballit of Assyria to the Pharaoh of Egypt, numbered EA 16, Ashur-nadin-ahhe is referred to as his ancestor who wrote to Egypt and received gold in return. This would imply an earlier diplomatic marriage and alliance between Assyria and Egypt during his reign. The name Ashur-nadin-ahhe mentioned in EA 16 has recently been contested as a faulty writing of Ashur-nadin-apli, another Assyrian king.[3]

  1. ^ Chen, Fei (2020). "Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings". Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004430914.
  2. ^ Grayson, Albert Kirk (1987). Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802026057.
  3. ^ a b "Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (king of Assyria) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.