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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Sennacherib, Sargon II, Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser III, Shalmaneser IV, List of Assyrian kings, Ashurbanipal, Nabonidus, Esarhaddon, Ashurnasirpal II, Shamshi-Adad I, Ashur-uballit I, Sinsharishkun, Ashur-etil-ilani, Ashur-uballit II, Adad-nirari II, Shalmaneser V, Adad-nirari III, Tukulti-Ninurta I, Ikunum, Shamshi-Adad V, Ashur-nadin-ahhe II, Puzur-Ashur II, Ashur-nirari V, Sin-shumu-lishir, Ashur-dan III, Ashur-rabi II, Ishme-Dagan I, Ninurta-apal-Ekur, Erishum I, Ashur-nirari III, Tiglath-Pileser IV, Ashur-bel-kala, Enlil-kudurri-usur, Eriba-Adad I, Tukulti-Ninurta II, Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur, Asharid-apal-Ekur, Ashur-resh-ishi II, Enlil-nirari, Yasmah-Adad, Ashur-nadin-apli, Ilu-shuma, Arik-den-ili, Assur-danin-pal, Eriba-Adad II, Mutakkil-Nusku, Akizzi, Ashur-nirari IV, Shamshi-Adad IV, Ashur-rim-nisheshu, Ashur-bel-nisheshu, Erishum II, Enlil-nasir I, Nur-ili, Hayani, Shamshi-Adad III, Sulili, Nevruz, Zulilu. Excerpt: The list of Assyrian kings is compiled from the Assyrian King List, an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia (modern northern Iraq) 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 (which list the names of eponymous officials for each year). These regnal lengths accord well with Hittite, Babylonian and ancient Egyptian king lists and with the archaeological record, and are considered reliable for the age. The Assyrian King List is not merely a list of kings of Assyria, but is a very specific document recorded in several ancient locations, related to the ancient Sumerian King List, and sometimes considered a continuation of it. There are three extant versions of the King List, and two fragments. They date to the early first millennium BC-the oldest, List A, stopping at...
