Ishme-Dagan I was the son of the
AmoriteAmorite refers to a Semitic people who occupied large parts of Mesopotamia from at least the second half of the third millennium BC...
king
Shamshi-Adad IShamshi-Adad I was a Mesopotamic king. He rose to prominence when he carved out a large kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, the Old Assyrian Kingdom, although the Assyria was soon defeated by Hammurabi of Babylon and remained in the shadow of the Babylonian Empire throughout this period.-Rise to...
, put on throne of
EkallatumEkallatum was an ancient city of upper Mesopotamia. The exact location of it has not yet been identified, but it was located somewhere along the left bank of the Tigris, south of Assur....
by his father after a successful military attack. He ruled the area of the upper
TigrisThe Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates. The river flows from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.-Geography:...
, including the city-state of
AssurAssur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria...
. After Shamshi-Adad's death he managed to rule for a few years before being ousted from power by local forces.
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Ishme-Dagan I was the son of the
AmoriteAmorite refers to a Semitic people who occupied large parts of Mesopotamia from at least the second half of the third millennium BC...
king
Shamshi-Adad IShamshi-Adad I was a Mesopotamic king. He rose to prominence when he carved out a large kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, the Old Assyrian Kingdom, although the Assyria was soon defeated by Hammurabi of Babylon and remained in the shadow of the Babylonian Empire throughout this period.-Rise to...
, put on throne of
EkallatumEkallatum was an ancient city of upper Mesopotamia. The exact location of it has not yet been identified, but it was located somewhere along the left bank of the Tigris, south of Assur....
by his father after a successful military attack. He ruled the area of the upper
TigrisThe Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates. The river flows from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.-Geography:...
, including the city-state of
AssurAssur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria...
. After Shamshi-Adad's death he managed to rule for a few years before being ousted from power by local forces.
His brother,
Yasmah-AdadYasmah-Adad was the son of the Amorite king Shamshi-Adad I, put on throne of Mari by his father after a successful military attack. After Shamshi-Adad's death he managed to rule for only a short time before being ousted from power by Zimrilim. His brother, Ishme-Dagan, ruled at the same time in the...
, ruled at the same time in the city of
MariMari was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria...
, where the correspondence between the father and two sons was found by archaeologists.
See also
- Assyria
Assyria was a civilization centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
- Babylonia and Assyria
During the period when they were competing for dominance in Iraq, the neighbouring sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character. Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria became an organized military power, with an autocratic king as its supreme...
- Kings of Assyria
The list of Assyrian kings is compiled from the Assyrian King List, an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia with information added from recent archaeological findings. The Assyrian King List includes regnal lengths that appear to have been based on now lost limmu lists...
- Chronology of Babylonia and Assyria