Ninurta-kudurri-usur I

Biography

A fragment of the Assyrian Synchronistic King List**Synchronistic King List, KAV 182 iii 11 excavation reference Ass. 13956dh. names Ashur-nirari IV as his contemporary, rather than Ashur-rabi II who better matches the chronology currently favored. Two Luristan arrowheads are inscribed with his name, and were probably votive offerings for temples, but there is a remote possibility that these belong to his later name-sake, who ruled for less than a year.

The Bīt-Abi-Rattaš kudurruKudurru BM 90835 BBSt No. IX top 1-25 in the British Museum. from the reign of Nabû-mukin-apli, 974–939 BC, begins with a recollection of an earlier legal document from Kār-Marduk, which may have been his capital, dated to his second year. It concerns a manslaughter settlement, where one Arad-Sibitti has killed the female slaveḫarmītu, a kind of slave, possibly linked to ḫarīmtu, “prostitute” (CAD Ḫ pp. 101, 104). of Buruša the bow-maker, ironically with an arrow. The king pronounced judgement and commanded Arad-Sibitta to give the plaintiff seven slaves in compensation and this was witnessed by seven high-ranking witnesses, of whom three were of Kassite origin and one, Ammenna, the officer, a Hurrian.

He may be represented by the eleventh king in the Prophecy A**Prophecy A, reverse ii 2-9. whose rule likewise endures for three years. This describes the apocalyptic events of the king’s reign with cities being destroyed, rebellion, hostility against Akkad, disconnection from the rites at the Ekur and Nippur, and fragmentary but ominous events involving the Amurru and weapons. He was succeeded by his brother Širikti-Šuqamuna.

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