Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur (Sumerian: ???????? AN.ŠAR₂, Assyrian cuneiform: Aš-šur, also phonetically d a-šur 4) is a god of the ancient Assyrians and Akkadians, and the head of the Assyrian pantheon in Mesopotamian religion, who was worshipped mainly in northern Mesopotamia, and parts of north-east Syria and south-east Asia Minor which constituted old …

Places. Assur, an Assyrian city and first capital of ancient Assyria; Ashur, Iran, a village in Iran; Asur, Thanjavur district, a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India; Assuras or Assur, a town in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa; Other uses. Ashur (Bible), the grandson of Noah in Genesis Ashur (god), the main god of Assyrian mythology in …

Nomenclature. In the Old Assyrian period, when Assyria was merely a city-state centered around the city of Assur, the state was typically referred to as ālu Aššur ("city of Ashur"). From the time of its rise as a territorial state in the 14th century BC and onwards, Assyria was referred to in official documentation as māt Aššur ("land of Ashur"), marking the shift to being a regional polity.

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , also Aššur-aḫa-iddina, meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: אֵסַר־חַדֹּן ‎ ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, …

Sennacherib (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Sîn-ahhī-erība or Sîn-aḥḥē-erība, meaning "Sîn has replaced the brothers") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BC to his own death in 681 BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of the most famous Assyrian kings for the role he plays in the Hebrew …

History of research. Exploration of the site of Assur began in 1898 by German archaeologists. Excavations began in 1900 by Friedrich Delitzsch, and were continued in 1903–1913 by a team from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft led initially by Robert Koldewey and later by Walter Andrae. More than 16,000 clay tablets with cuneiform texts were discovered.

Location. According to the Bible, Solomon's Temple was built on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where an angel of God had appeared to David (2 Chronicles 3:1).The site was originally a threshing floor David had purchased from Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:18–25; 2 Chronicles 3:1).. Schmid and Rupprecht are of the view that the site of the temple used to be a Jebusite …

Shem (/ ʃ ɛ m /; Hebrew: שֵׁם Šēm; Arabic: سَام, romanized: Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the book of Genesis and in the book of Chronicles, and the Quran.. The children of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in addition to unnamed daughters. Abraham, the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was one of the descendants of Arphaxad.

Eanna temple in Uruk: Equatorial sky: An (in Sumerian), later known as Anu (in Akkadian), was the supreme God and "prime mover in creation", embodied by the sky. He is the first and most distant ancestor, theologically conceived as the God of Heaven in its "transcendental obscurity". In some theological systems all of the deities were believed to be the offspring of An and his …

Issue: Ashur-nadin-apli, Enlil-kudurri-usur: Father: Shalmaneser I: Tukulti-Ninurta I (meaning: "my trust is in [the warrior god] Ninurta"; reigned c. 1243–1207 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire.He is known as the first king to use the title "King of Kings".Biography. Tukulti-Ninurta I succeeded Shalmaneser I, his father, as king and won a major victory …