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Sulili (Akkadian: π’‹’π’‡·π’‡·, romanized: Su-li-li) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 27th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. He also appears within the Assyrian King List as the first out of the six kings β€œ(whose names were written on?) bricks whose eponyms are (not known?)". Additionally, it is stated within the Assyrian King List that he was the successor of and β€œson of Aminu". Aminu had himself been the son of and successor of Ila-kabkabu, and Aminu and Ila-kabkabu were among the ten kings β€œwho are ancestors".

The section within the Assyrian King List β€œkings who are ancestors/whose fathers are known” (which, in contrast to the rest of the list, was written in reverse order, beginning with Aminu and ending with Apiashal), has often been interpreted as a list of Shamshi-Adad I's ancestors. In keeping with this assumption, scholars have inferred that the original form of the Assyrian King List had been written, among other things, as an β€œattempt to justify that Shamshi-Adad I was a legitimate ruler of the city-state Assur and to obscure his non-Assyrian antecedents by incorporating his ancestors into a native Assyrian genealogy.” However, this interpretation has not been accepted universally; the Cambridge Ancient History rejected this interpretation and instead interpreted the section as the ancestors of Sulili. Sulili is also shown as being the predecessor of Kikkia within the Assyrian King List.

A man by the name "Silulu" is attested as an early ruler of Assur by contemporary seals. He is perhaps possible to identify with the otherwise unattested Sulili, but the inscription identifies Silulu's father as Dakiki, "herald of the city of Ashur", which does not fit with the genealogy of the Assyrian King List.

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References

  1. ^ Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2004). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Lit. p. 137. ISBN 1589830903.
  2. ^ Meissner, Bruno (1990). Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Vol. 6. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 101–105. ISBN 3110100517.
  3. Hildegard Levy, "Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.", Cambridge Ancient History. Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East, 729-770, p. 745-746.)
  4. Grayson, Albert Kirk (1972). Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: From the beginning to Ashur-resha-ishi I. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 5. ISBN 978-3-447-01382-6.
Preceded byAminu Monarch of Assyria
fl. c. 2000 BC
Succeeded byKikkia
Kings of Assyria
Old Assyrian period
(c. 2025–1364 BC)
Middle Assyrian Empire
(c. 1363–912 BC)
Neo-Assyrian Empire
(911–609 BC)
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