Aššur-etel-ilāni (r. 630–627 BC)

Despite Kandalānu (r. 647–627 BC) being the king of Babylon, Aššur-etel-ilāni, Ashurbanipal's son and immediate successor, held authority over parts of Babylonia. Like his father before him, this young Assyrian king sponsored building projects in several cities. This is evident from his royal inscriptions, which were written in Akkadian, as well as in Sumerian. From texts on clay tablets and baked bricks, Aššur-etel-ilāni is known to have worked on the following buildings in Babylonia:

Dilbat

E-ibbi-Anum (temple of the god Uraš and the goddess Ninegal)

Nippur

Ekur (temple of the god Enlil)

In addition, this Assyrian king dedicated a musukkannu-wood offering table to the god Marduk, presumably in his temple Esagil at Babylon, and made a gold scepter for Marduk and had it placed in Eešerke, that god's place of worship in the city Sippar-Aruru (also known as Dūr-Šarrukku).

Banner image: Stephen Langdon's hand-drawn facsimile of Ashm 1922-0190, a brick with an Akkadian inscription of the Assyrian king Aššur-etel-ilāni recording that he rebuilt E-ibbi-Anum, the main temple at Dilbat. Image from the CDLI.

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl, 'Aššur-etel-ilāni (r. 630–627 BC)', Babylonian Temples and Monumental Architecture online (BTMAo), The BTMAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, [http://oracc.org/btmao/StructuresbyBuilder/Neo-AssyrianPeriod/Ashur-etel-ilani/]

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